[CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

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>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of
>John R Pierce
>Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 6:49 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>
>Eaton Powerware used to be Best, they made the very good FerrUps series.

Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? APC is
apparantely not an option as they suck bigtime IMO, so what's? Powerware and
APC are the two biggest and most wellknown UPS-manufacturers I know of.


>Re: batteries, most all UPS's I've seen use various standard VRLA
>batteries (Valve Regulated Lead Acid, often mistakenly called Sealed
>Lead Acid, or Gel Cells), readily obtainable from vendors like
>www.digikey.com, assembled into packs...   with a few exceptions, you
>can use the generic equivalent battery, much much cheaper.   I
>resurrected a dead SmartUPS 2000 that was going to be tossed at work by
>replacing the batteries with 4 x 12V20AH Panasonic VRLA, which happens
>to be the same size my motorcycle uses.
>
>Now, battery prices have gone up considerably these last 2-3 years, lead
>prices are very high, as are transportation costs.

A motorcycle battery... Good one, thx for the hint!

-- 
/Sorin
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