[TriLUG] UPS Batteries

Wed Oct 23 08:21:37 EDT 2002

I need some

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Flanagan [mailto:kevin at flanagannc.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:23 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] UPS Batteries

Morning,

        I too have a UPS with dead batteries, I looked into a
replacement set, but it was going to be just over a hundred dollars. 

        How many others, and can we team up when buying batteries to
drive the cost down?


Kevin

+------------------------------------------+
"I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow."
     ~~Frank Zappa

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of al johson
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:34 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] UPS Batteries
>
>
> Well, sorry I missed this thread before the last Cary Amateur
> Radio Club
> meeting in Cary, because I could have invited you to a
> program which the
> club held on just this subject: fixing UPS systems primarily by simply
> replacing the batteries. Actually if you know where to look,
> the batteries
> you need are rather easy to obtain. And they can be bought
> very cheaply if
> you buy them in pallets. Sorry I don't remember the precise
> source that the
> speaker recommended, but I do know his name and if there is still any
> interest in this subject, I'd be happy to email him and find out this
> information for the group. There is also a way to rejuvenate
> a lot of the
> batteries that go bad in UPS's, if you're handy with some
> simple tools. This
> may differ slightly with the particular batteries that are in
> your UPS, but
> if it is a Yuasa battery, all you have to do is to take note
> of the solid
> plastic cover that covers the top of each battery, then
> carefully take a
> screwdriver and break the glue sealing this top to the bottom
> case of the
> battery. After you've done that you will note that this
> battery looks much
> like your car battery with several individual cells. Most of
> these batteries
> are sealed lead acid batteries. The major problem is that the
> water in some
> these cells may have evaporated during use. While this may or
> may not work
> depending on how badly the battery is damaged, you simply
> have to obtain
> some distilled water and punch a hole small enough to refill
> each cell (some
> will probably need more water than others). DO NOT USE
> ORDINARY TAP WATER TO
> FILL THEM. Then when you've filled all of them you can glue
> the cover back
> on and recharge the battery using preferable the UPS the
> charger in the UPS
> itself.
> YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS TO BE AN EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS WHICH
> MAY OR MAY NOT
> WORK. But considering how inexpensive it is to try (assuming
> you do this
> OUTSIDE) and WEAR EYE PROTECTION WHILE RECHARGING the
> batteries, it is very
> safe indeed. Naturally this is not as good as simply
> replacing the batteries
> with new ones (which are indeed available if you know how to look in
> ELECTRONIC battery catalogues). The gentleman who put on this
> program for
> the Cary Amateur Radio Club, said that theoretically you
> should never have
> to buy any UPS, because so many corporations just throw them
> away in their
> dumpsters whenever their batteries go bad. And if you're
> lucky enough to
> work at such a corporation you can salvage them, replace the
> batteries and
> have what amounts to a perfectly new UPS.  He also said that
> he has a house
> full of these things which he has salvaged and uses to put
> all his computers
> on clean battery power (no CP&L power spikes for his
> computers). There is
> one place where you can buy used UPS's and that is an Amateur
> Radio Hamfest.
> Hams recycle just about everything electronic and there are
> almost always
> several used ones which have been rescued from the dumpsters
> offered for
> sale very cheap. Really sorry I missed this message
> earlier.---Al Johnson.
> --=--------------------
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Beimler" <john at radiomind.com>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] UPS Batteries
>
>
> > On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 10:25, Steve Kuekes wrote:
> > > I have two UPS's that recently quit UPSing.  It appears that the
> > > batteries are dead.  Is there a way to replace the
> batteries without
> > > getting a whole new UPS?  Or I can just wait for a sale
> at Best Buy
> again.
> >
> > There is a battery place near the corner of Maynard and
> High House in
> > Cary across the street from the Kroger, I think its name is Battery
> > Plus.  Anyhow, I got replacement batteries for a industrial
> UPS there at
> > one point, but it was expensive.
> >
> > Peace.
> >
> > john
> >
> >
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