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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I found APC replacement batteries to be surprisingly affordable - I had a client with a dead battery in their APC unit, and I fully expected to be recommending a brand new UPS rather than replacing the battery, but they were actually quite affordable, less than 1/2 the cost of a new UPS. This was in their 500 VA LS line, so maybe they jack the prices out of proportion on the consumer grade stuff, I dunno - but the LS series are certainly affordable overall for home use too. Batteries last 5 years on average, not a couple.
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My experience with big UPSes is the same but at work we also use the smaller ones for our workstations so my memory may be tainted by a few things:
1) I work in a 1950's era building downtown and the wiring is totally not up to modern standards. Up until last summer when they upgraded the electrical service to the building, there were frequent brown-outs.
2) When you have lots of UPSes, you remember the ones that fail, not the ones that keep working for years without complaint.
3) That place is a time vacuum. I've been there for 14 years so sometimes it seems like we just got such and such a piece of equipment a year or two ago when it might have been half a dozen...
:-)
