Dead batteries... aren't very much fun (was: Re: [TriLUG] UPS Batteries)

[William W. Ward]

Doug -

The other fine option in UPS battery replacement - bigger batteries.  I
purchased a 24Ah unit to replace the twin 7.2Ah cells in an APC 1000 UPS.
The battery certainly doesn't fit inside, but the run time is outstanding
(in its field.)

Bill



----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Brown" <dugbrown at email.unc.edu>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: Dead batteries... aren't very much fun (was: Re: [TriLUG] UPS
Batteries)


>
> I've had great luck with batteries plus - took a load of dead UPS
> batteries over and got new ones fairly inexpensively - watch dimensions
> on the new ones, I have a big APC matrix unit w/o a top because of the
> size of the new batteries... but it works great.
>
> -doug
>
> "William W. Ward" wrote:
> >
> > I don't think they handle disposable batteries (that is to say,
batteries
> > that are manufacture with the intention of being chucked in the
landfill,)
> > but they do take nickel cadmium and lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride
> > cells.
> >
> > The link below should take you to their store locator page.  Call them
and
> > ask, it would seem desirable to recycle all types of batteries if such a
> > process were practical.  I know the larger lead-acid cells have been
> > recycled for many years, and there is a big campaign by some
organization to
> > coax people into recycling their consumer electronic battery packs as
the
> > metals within are more troublesome than the traditional alkaline cells.
> > http://www.batteriesplus.com/locator.html
> >
> > I'm not specifically interested in promoting this store above others,
but I
> > don't have any experience or knowledge of other vendors in the area -
and my
> > experiences with this particular vendor have been very good.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Franklin" <franklin at elfie.org>
> > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:37 AM
> > Subject: Dead batteries... aren't very much fun (was: Re: [TriLUG] UPS
> > Batteries)
> >
> > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:53:56AM -0400, William W. Ward wrote:
> > > > As a related aside, Batteries Plus also accepts old rechargeable
> > batteries
> > > > of all types for recycling, including cell phone packs, laptop
batteries
> > and
> > > > individual rechargeable cells you might use in place of alkaline
> > > > disposables.
> > >
> > > Will they take regular batteries (alkaline or otherwise) for
recycling,
> > too?
> > >
> > > jf
> > > --
> > > John Franklin
> > > franklin at elfie.org
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