Re: UPS & Tape Drive

[Wayne McAlpine <wmcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of batteries, don't expect to get more than three years life 
out of a five-year battery, even if you operate on battery only very 
occasionally for short periods.  After three years, some of the cells 
get weak and you will not get your expected run time out of them.  Not a 
good place to cut corners.

James H H Lampert wrote:
> We have a pair of APC 2200s, powering a 510, a 170, a 40S, a D02, 2 Linux
> boxes, 2 Windoze boxes, and assorted auxiliary equipment, and except for
> some "false alarm" shutdowns (that my now-famous widgets corrected, as
> well as providing power-failure-shutdown warnings to the two oldest
> machines), they've worked rather well, particularly now that we have
> multiple vendors to go to for new batteries, and a local recycling depot
> that neither insists on selling us packs, nor charges a disposal fee.
>
>
> Which is to say, take care of your battery vendors, and they'll take care
> of you.
> --
> JHHL
>
>
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