WTB Ipad NOW SORTED

tugwellguitar

Not majorly fussy about model  ,ideally something fairly recent with good battery.

Many Thanks

pjf

I got a refurbished one recently just to use as a music display / remote for Apple Music. Lives on a stand on my desk. Was dubious at first when it seemed slow to take a charge but the battery is awesome on it. Lasts weeks. No 3 or 4G, wifi only, was about £150 and in perfect nick. Ebay seller name I just looked up, “limetropic”.

Danny1969

pjf said:

I got a refurbished one recently just to use as a music display / remote for Apple Music. Lives on a stand on my desk. Was dubious at first when it seemed slow to take a charge but the battery is awesome on it. Lasts weeks. No 3 or 4G, wifi only, was about £150 and in perfect nick. Ebay seller name I just looked up, “limetropic”.

For an older iPad a good battery will take longer to charge than a bad battery, because it can hold more charge therefor it lasts longer. 
A dirty lighting port can cause slow charging though as well due to the resistance of the port. If the port gets overly warm during charging then that's a sure soon. 

The charger for an iPad needs to be an iPad 12.5W not a little phone one. 

More modern iPads and phones can charge at a higher voltage via USB C 9V rather than 5V  so 18W ish which is quicker. 

tugwellguitar

Thanks for great info guys,very useful advice  from  both of you .
Cheers.

tugwellguitar

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drofluf

I’ve got an iPad 8 128GB that I’m about to list. Is that suitable?

Blueingreen

pjf said:

I got a refurbished one recently just to use as a music display / remote for Apple Music. Lives on a stand on my desk. Was dubious at first when it seemed slow to take a charge but the battery is awesome on it. Lasts weeks. No 3 or 4G, wifi only, was about £150 and in perfect nick. Ebay seller name I just looked up, “limetropic”.

I paid £80 on Gumtree for an iPad 2.  I was reluctant to pay much more because it is used purely for running Piascore (music chart manager).  I have newer iPad minis for other stuff.  Happy with the purchase, a lot easier to manage than a ring binder full of hard copy charts.  The battery is showing signs of age but still good for around 6 hours and that's all I need. 

xGizmo

Keep and eye on

https://itzoo.co.uk/collections/apple

they have Gtee'd refurb's for not a lot from time to time + 10% for signing up to their newsletter.

tugwellguitar

Thanks for great help with this one , I think I’m sorted now .