On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:20:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 August 2007, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >Gene:
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> >Bob Goodwin
>
> I've been there too, most notably with an old NCR about the size of a full
> tower case and around 150 pounds. It had 4 big 6 cell gel cells in it that
> at the price of them, got replaced with 4 ea 14AH motorcycle batteries all
> rigged so the overflow tubes dumped into a pint of soda. But it, even after
> I lowered the float voltage by 4 volts, still boiled them dry at yearly
> intervals. But it also ran this place for over 4 hours one night before I
> got nervous and did a gracefull shutdown. We were 3 days getting power
> restored that time. So after 3 years & 2 sets of batteries it got retired,
> and when the 1500 kva belkin I bought to replace it went tits up after the
> third battery in 3 years, refusing to handle a reset all the machines
> brownout for teh 4th time, it got replaced with yet another belkin, but when
> this ones gone, the next one will say APC on it, they care about linux.
>
> It won't be that long either, I'm convinced that belkin engineers a minimum
> operating temperature for their gel cells of something in the 170 degree
> range just so they can sell a new battery set at $130 a year. I have to open
> them up, and leave then sit and cool for about half an hour just so they can
> be handled with bare hands. Grrrr. Good business model for belkin as long
> as they can get away with it though. :(
>
Gene:
Speaking of replacing UPS batteries, have you checked out
www.batterywholesale.com? No, I don't work for them, but I do have two
(Tripplite) UPSes here with their batteries in them. MUCH less expensive
than most other places I've found.
Fred
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