[PLUG] Re: UPS failure/replacement

[Aaron Burt]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:33:47PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> writes:
> 
> Russell> How much voltage should there be on a dead battery?  I just
> Russell> measured 13.15 and 13.2 V, respectively.  PowerSonic PS-12120
> Russell> F2.
> 
> Aaron> Looks OK, though often a bad battery can show a good voltage,
> Aaron> but fail a load test.  <snip>
>
> Well, it had enough juice to cook a 47 ohm resistor in about 5 seconds
> with no measurable loss of voltage.  My guess is that batteries are
> okay.

OK then, it's likely something that'll take too long to fix.  I'd
suggest buying another one and donating the old one to FG on Tuesday
(they're closed this Wednesday).  They *love* good UPS batteries,
especially 1212s.