[NBLUG/talk] OT: Anyone ever replaced a battery in a UPS?

[Walter Hansen]

Robert Hayes wrote:
> Seems the battery in my years old UPS just died.
> 
> We have voltage drops here regularly during the winter. 
> 
> Normally the UPS chirps and the world goes on as it should.
> 
> Yesterday, however, the UPS chirped, the PC reset.  Yikes.
> 
> Now when I hold the test button on the UPS I just get a rapidly declining 
> beeeeep to nothing. Sounds a lot like R2-D2 dying.
> 
> What's the conventional wisdom on this topic? My unit has a small battery, 
> like a motorcycle. Do people replace the cells, or is the whole thing 
> recycled and replaced?


The one's I've done have been real easy. HSC in rhonert park carries 
several models of popular batteries and takes the old ones with no fee. 
I've mostly dealt with APC units, and a single Phillips screwdriver and 
a few minutes was all that was required.