Subj : Re: My post from about 1hr ago has not yet made it
To   : Jay Harris
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sat Nov 21 2020 11:15 am

  Re: Re: My post from about 1hr ago has not yet made it
  By: Jay Harris to August Abolins on Sat Nov 21 2020 09:24 am

JH> We have a battery shop here in Hamilton (called Acme battery) that carries
JH> all shapes & sizes of batteries. We have 4 or 5 UPSs for various things
JH> here at home. 

JH> When a battery decides to bite the bullet, we bring it to Acme Battery who
JH> recycles the old one for us and sells us a replacement for about ~$30. 

Nice. I end up paying for my Amazon prime membership with battery shipping. I have a UPS that needs a new battery now that I need to replace, hoping that BestBuy will accept the battery. I think my local garbage will, they recycle alkalines and rechargeables - just not quite that big!

Although, my UPS is a 550 kva, and it only gets me 10 minutes or so of run time. Might be time for a bigger UPS, although I really just need enough run time to survive little blips and to automatically shut my desktop down. It's running a RAID array, and power cuts cause it to go into a verify state that takes a good 6-8 hours and bogs the system down.
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