UPS Batteries

[Huge]

Can any recommend a good place to buy them? My APC SmartUPS 2000 has eaten its batteries. (Well, it is over 10 years old...)

[Andy Burns]

I've bought several replacement batteries from

because they're local to me and posting lead isn't cheap.

But I don't buy their UPS kits, a few minutes work with a nut driver to transfer the wiring and fuse with some heavy duty double-sided tape to stick the batteries together saves a few quid.

[charles]

CPC

is a good place to start. I got new batteries for my UPS, although a different make, from there,

[Dave Liquorice]

I don't see any prices but maybe you need javascript enabled for that?

I've bought my last couple of sets of batteries for my UPS from:

prices, quick delivery at not a silly cost either.

Agreed, no need for a made up pack.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Huge escribió:

Buy Yuasa, and get them from your local burglar alarm supplier.

[Huge]

I was going to do that, thanks.

Now that's a good idea, thanks!

[Chris Bartram]

Pretty much any industrial battery supplier: RS/Farnell if all else fails. You can strip out the APC assembly and fit standard batteries.

[Huge]

Do I look like I'm made of money?

Oh, I was going to do that.

I must try and find the bloke I bought it from in the first place (on eBay), he was very good - trades under the name of "Bikes & Batteries" or somesuch.

[Adrian C]

Probably a bit old, odd, OT and US centric, but nevertheless a part interesting writeup on someone's sourcing of replacement APC batteries and their installation.

bought enough to worry about the safety of his room floor!

[Adrian C]

Oh yes - forgot

I've recently dealt with these guys on eBay for batteries

problems.

[John Rumm]

I normally buy the bare batts from CPC and transfer the existing hardware etc. Apply mirror tape to stick em together.

Having said that, sometimes the ready made packs from eBuyer are cheap enough.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Adrian C escribió:

uk.adverts.computer), that's seconded.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Mike Tomlinson escribió:

Whitfield, not Whitworth. Sorry.

[Bill Wright]

I think you're losing the thread.

Bill

[tony sayer]

In article , Huge scribeth thus

Bloody hell!, they lasted that long?.

Of the few APC units I have to look after I think they've done well if they haven't cooked the batteries after a couple of years;!....

[Graham.]

I used to maintain the tellys in the Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester. In the maintenance department was the battery for the 110v dc maintained emergency lighting. It consisted of 55 2V accumulators, each one the size of a 12V leisure battery.

[Graham.]

we upgrade hardware in roughly a 3 year cycle and I find about half the old UPS batteries no longer function. These are very small UPSs with 5Ah (@ 20 Hr rate) batteries.

[Bob Eager]

Yup, I'm running one of the units he sold me, still. I got three off him altogether and he delivered them!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

They will last that long if you disable the fortnightly self-discharge/recharge cycle that APC wants the box to do. Of course, this is nothing to do with selling you more batteries, oh no.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Bill Wright escribió:

Advancing age is screwing me up.