[ale] OT: question about replacing batteries in a APC UPS

[Van Loggins]

I'm going to be on a bit of a budget until after Christmas (too many
presents for my family!!).

Do you have any recommendations for a inexpensive UPS that has easy to
replace batteries? I had a tripp-lite ups several years ago and thought it
was a pretty decent unit for the price I paid for it.

I bought my wife a Belkin 650VA UPS a while back and it seems to work pretty
well for her. I'm not sure if this is a good one though.


here is what this UPS will be keeping up if this will help with determining
how many volt amps the unit has to have.

Athlon 64 3000 workstation with 650W ATX P/S
Dell 1935FW 19" LCD Display
set of powered speakers.


Thanks for responding to me Mike!

Hope you have a Merry Christmas!!

Van


On 12/19/05, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
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> > worse. The unit started beeping nonstop and would shut itself off and
> > then wait for a minute or so and turn itself back on only to start
> > beeping again, and the unit doesn't keep running if the power is pulled
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> I could have described it as an APC UPS from this description alone.
> Trash it. Buy a cheap Tripp-Lite or non-name brand, It'll work better,
> longer.
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> Twice in my life I've open the door to my old NOC to the acrid smell
> of burnt components and smoke and found a rack mount APC UPS
> clicking on and off in that cycle.
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> The other weird thing about APC's is many of them switch 'on' for
> frequency shifts in the line frequency.. and it does not take much of a
> shift. This is a real problem if your generator oscillates a little on
> center frequency. Most other UPS's switch on missed pulses/cycles or
> average voltage drop. I've seen bad line power frequencies that bothered
> nothing else cause an APC's to "eat itself".
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