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100,000,000 iPod owners and counting! A remarkable tribute to Apple's iPod music">iPod music player - no question! I wonder how many of these iPod owners know how their iPod battery works. Understandably most people don't really care as long as it does. However I am interested and I'm sure there are others out there as well who want to know how their iPod battery actually delivers power to their iPod.

Most people would never realize how complex an ipod battery is nor would they realize how many components can be found within their ipod battery. For starters your ipod battery is made up of highly specialized battery components including:

• ipod battery connector
• ipod battery fuse
• ipod battery charge and discharge FETs
• ipod battery cell pack
• ipod battery sense resistor
• ipod battery primary and secondary protection ICs
• ipod battery fuel-gauge IC
• ipod battery thermistor
• ipod battery pc board

These components together allow your ipod battery to function so that you can listen to music while doing the various activities" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with activities">activities of your day. Before we can delve deep into each of these ipod battery components I want to make sure that we understand that these components together work in an effort to produce electrical current to supply to the iPod.

iPods require electrical power in order to function. iPods