[ale] OT: question about replacing batteries in a APC UPS

[Van Loggins]

I would have suspected this too if the seller didn't have good feedback.

this is his store site on ebay

http://stores.ebay.com/Gruber-Power-Services

this evening I am going to get my voltmeter out and test my old batteries
and then test my "new batteries" to see how much juice they have. I may have
to borrow my father's lawn mower battery charger so I can charge them up to
see how much charge they will hold. I'm fairly certain that my APC Smart-UPS
1000 is shot though.



On 12/19/05, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Those "brand new" batteries off of ebay are worn out. Go to Batteries
> Plus and buy really brand new ones. Take both sets of your old one back
> to them. They will handle the recycling of them (the batteries are taken
> apart and the lead is extracted and made into more batteries.)
>
> One of the biggest scams on EBay is "new" batteries for power supplies.
> The only way to tell is to do some serious charging circuit monitoring
> with manufacturing specs to compare with.
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