[PLUG] Recommended battery UPS?

[Russell Senior]

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On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 7:30 PM Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:21 PM Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> wrote:
> >
> > In my experience, I've had the best luck buying broken rack mounted UPS
> > units from data-centers and utility companies, ignoring all the high
> > voltage/death/no-user-serviceable-parts-inside warnings, safely
> > discharging the capacitors and fixing the units usually by soldering
> > replacements for the broken parts in.
>
> I recently invented a new way to break a UPS, a circa 2002 APC
> DLA1500, while replacing the batteries. The circuit board is mounted
> above the batteries with components down. While pushing the new
> batteries in to the cavity intended for them, the cabling (I think)
> managed to shear a couple of the components partially off the board.
> One is an easily replaced capacitor, but the second one is a custom
> wound multi-tap transformer. If someone would like to bring it back to
> life, either by rewinding the transformer or scavenging the part from
> another broken APC UPS, they are welcome to try (let me know how you'd
> like to receive the parts). I've chosen to solve my problem in a
> different manner.
>
> --
> Russell Senior
> russell at personaltelco.net