Ben - I've almost never seen an APC Smart-UPS that was actually defective. I'd certainly take a chance on the batteries.
There's an outfit on Ebay that sells a privately branded "ZEUS" SLA battery at a very reasonable price (batteryman20). I've ordered many times had very good luck with their batteries. They have a RBC12 set of batteries for $66.75 with $31.88 shipping. If your batteries are down to 2v they will never take enough of a charge to make the UPS trigger on (in my experience). Also one of the links in most APC supplies is a fuse. I'm not sure about the 3000 - but it's true of the 1000 and 1500va units. Make sure that it isn't open. Good luck! - Gary > > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" > <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:10:30 -0400 > Subject: [OT] Charging UPS batteries outside the UPS > > I've got an APC Smart-UPS 3000 (P/N SU3000RM3U) > which I picked up > for free (someone was getting rid of it). _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
