On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:55:00PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > That is what I want to see -- far lighter weight batteries ... > > ... Lithium polymers would be great for this sort of application. They > should be linux-friendly, ... First, appliances should be OS-independent; they should talk a "common language", that doesn't care if it's on Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. Secondly--as you'll continue to see me state in this post--the problem is that everyone wants "cheapest possible". That means they go for things like lead acid--cheap, mature--and LCD on any drivers or associated software. > As a result of the various posts in this thread, ... > <<snip>> Essentially, batteries are batteries. The vendors aren't going to go to the immediate cost of custom "smart" batteris and support costs of a specialized battery. > This still does not really meet my criterium of being very quick to > replace and instantly usable. To meet that criterion, you essentially need to find a local battery supplier who has either original vendor replacement batteries, or acceptable aftermarket units designed for your UPS. Given the economy and the decline of bricks'n'sticks stores, good luck. > I wish there were a way to independently, accurately and easily test the > UPS itself ... > ... > Having the ability to test the units, regardless of devices connected to > the UPS, is critical. Again--the end users are demanding cheap. They get cheap. > The APC units are still way too heavy and bulky. They are poorly > designed, being little more than batteries stuffed into a box that are > connected to circuit boards and 120v outlets. Cheap. See above. The most depressing part of all of this is that companies producing professional-quality units aren't rewarded, so they either die or turn out low-end junk...as we're seeing. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
