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

[James P. Kinney III]

Those "brand new" batteries off of ebay are worn out. Go to Batteries
Plus and buy really brand new ones. Take both sets of your old one back
to them. They will handle the recycling of them (the batteries are taken
apart and the lead is extracted and made into more batteries.)

One of the biggest scams on EBay is "new" batteries for power supplies.
The only way to tell is to do some serious charging circuit monitoring
with manufacturing specs to compare with.

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 21:18 -0500, Van Loggins wrote:
> My current UPS which is a APC Smart-UPS 1000. It started intermittantly 
> beeping a while back and after reading the online manual from APC
> I determined that the beeps were because the batteries were dying and 
> that I needed to replace them. I found replacement batteries for it
> on ebay and bought them.
> 
> To make a long story short, this didn't fix the problem, in fact it got 
> 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 
> even though the charge meter is at 100% for the batteries.
> 
> 
> I'm no expert but I think this means that the the unit is pretty well 
> shot, and now I am stuck with two "Brand New" 12 volt 12 amp hour gel 
> lead acid batteries. I am looking at a APC Smart-UPS 700
> that I have the chance to get, but it needs batteries and after checking 
> into it, I found out that this model needs 12 volt 7 amp hour gel lead 
> acid batteries.
> 
> My question is this, would I be able to use the new batteries that I 
> just bought for my now defunct APC Smart-UPS 1000 in the APC Smart-UPS 
> 700 that I'm looking at buying?
> 
> in summary the old unit I had uses 12 volt 12 amp hour batteries, and 
> the replacement unit I am looking at uses 12 volt 7 amp hour batteries. 
> They look to be approximately the same size and hook up the same way.
> 
> Thanks for any info that you guys can pass along.
> 
> Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
> 
> Van
> 
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