Hi, the BR24BP is indeed an expansion of the RS. Not for just 5 minutes, but for 20. That is quite neat. It comes with a socket & plug system, rather than a wires-hanging-out-soldering system.
Last time I soldered was in secondary. rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug On Tuesday 22 September 2009 16:59:18 Chris Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > > Not sure that was what I wanted to hear. > > > > Second alternative I have is buying an APC batterypack for the RS1500. > > That would give me 15 more minute which is enough time for the gennie to > > kick in. > > > > Does anyone know a place in town where they would have something > > advanced as this battery pack? > > > > http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR24BP > > > > > > (looking at the instruction manuals for the 2 UPSs i have, i just dont > > see how I am going to fit the batteries together.) > > I assume that neither the RS 1500 nor your Smart-UPS is expandable. In > that case you would need to do some soldering to add more batteries to > them. It won't be in the manuals, they don't want you to do this, they'd > rather that you buy a big, shiny, expandable UPS. But if you're careful > about battery voltages and polarities, and the UPS can handle the load of > the attached machines you can add more batteries to it fairly easily. > > Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
