>-----Original Message----- >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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5126 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090202/238d000b/attachment-0004.bin>