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On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 7:30 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:21 PM Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In my experience, I've had the best luck buying broken rack mounted UPS > > units from data-centers and utility companies, ignoring all the high > > voltage/death/no-user-serviceable-parts-inside warnings, safely > > discharging the capacitors and fixing the units usually by soldering > > replacements for the broken parts in. > > I recently invented a new way to break a UPS, a circa 2002 APC > DLA1500, while replacing the batteries. The circuit board is mounted > above the batteries with components down. While pushing the new > batteries in to the cavity intended for them, the cabling (I think) > managed to shear a couple of the components partially off the board. > One is an easily replaced capacitor, but the second one is a custom > wound multi-tap transformer. If someone would like to bring it back to > life, either by rewinding the transformer or scavenging the part from > another broken APC UPS, they are welcome to try (let me know how you'd > like to receive the parts). I've chosen to solve my problem in a > different manner. > > -- > Russell Senior > [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
