Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, ended

2013-02-16 Thread mark
On 02/15/13 19:35, zGreenfelder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:52 PM, John R Pierce > wrote: >> On 2/15/2013 2:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> That's fine, but I'm talking about the prices I, personally, have >>> written PO's for over the last three years. >> >> so how many man hours have yo

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-15 Thread zGreenfelder
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/15/2013 2:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> That's fine, but I'm talking about the prices I, personally, have written >> PO's for over the last three years. > > > so how many man hours have you wasted to save a few $100 on these > batter

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2013-02-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> That's fine, but I'm talking about the prices I, personally, have written >> PO's for over the last three years. > > > so how many man hours have you wasted to save a few $100 on these > batteries ? if it was our production data centers,

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2013-02-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/15/2013 2:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > That's fine, but I'm talking about the prices I, personally, have written > PO's for over the last three years. so how many man hours have you wasted to save a few $100 on these batteries ? if it was our production data centers, the UPS VAR would

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-15 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/15/2013 4:53 AM, mark wrote: >> I take it you didn't read previous posts by me in this thread, including >> my rant about how every OEM LIES, and that they've never tested their >> "regular" in a rackmount? > > OEM would be the battery manufacturer (Panasonic, Yuasa, Uni

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/15/2013 4:53 AM, mark wrote: > I take it you didn't read previous posts by me in this thread, including > my rant about how every OEM LIES, and that they've never tested their > "regular" in a rackmount? OEM would be the battery manufacturer (Panasonic, Yuasa, Universal, etc) or the equipmen

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-15 Thread mark
On 02/14/13 18:48, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/14/2013 11:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Tom Bishop wrote: Mark did you look at atbatt.com, I have been looking recently and they are ones that I have been looking to go with, not sure if they do GSA though... >> Just looked at them.

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2013-02-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/14/2013 11:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Tom Bishop wrote: >> >Mark did you look at atbatt.com, I have been looking recently and they are >> >ones that I have been looking to go with, not sure if they do GSA >> >though... > Just looked at them. They're about half-way between full APC prices

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2013-02-14 Thread m . roth
Tom Bishop wrote: > Mark did you look at atbatt.com, I have been looking recently and they are > ones that I have been looking to go with, not sure if they do GSA > though... Just looked at them. They're about half-way between full APC prices and the discounters I've been looking at. They do have

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2013-02-14 Thread Tom Bishop
Mark did you look at atbatt.com, I have been looking recently and they are ones that I have been looking to go with, not sure if they do GSA though... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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2013-02-14 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > On 2/13/2013 06:12, mark wrote: >> Huh. No, I want to pay on the order of $12/individual battery, > > Please don't misuse "order." It's a corruption of the scientific term > "order of magnitude"[1][2] which, used correctly, means that the values > you're comparing use the sam

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2013-02-14 Thread Warren Young
On 2/13/2013 06:12, mark wrote: > Huh. No, I want to pay on the order of $12/individual battery, Please don't misuse "order." It's a corruption of the scientific term "order of magnitude"[1][2] which, used correctly, means that the values you're comparing use the same factor of 10 in scientific

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2013-02-13 Thread mark
On 02/12/13 19:19, S.Tindall wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 13:28 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Here's the state of my search: BatteriesPlus is... odd. The corporate >> site, and after a phone call, tell me they don't do GSA, but some of their >> franchises do. I called the local one, and they

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-12 Thread S.Tindall
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 13:28 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Here's the state of my search: BatteriesPlus is... odd. The corporate > site, and after a phone call, tell me they don't do GSA, but some of their > franchises do. I called the local one, and they do. > > However, the only RBC 43 they of

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2013-02-12 Thread m . roth
Joshua Zukerman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:28 PM, wrote: >> Here's the state of my search: BatteriesPlus is... odd. The corporate >> site, and after a phone call, tell me they don't do GSA, but some of >> their franchises do. I called the local one, and they do. >> >> However, the only RB

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-12 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:28:32PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Having checked with my manager, we'll try the open market quotes. I would > like a third recommendation, so I can offer purchasing three quotes. > > Recommendations? Battery Mart? Looks like they're government CCR http://www.

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2013-02-12 Thread Joshua Zukerman
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:28 PM, wrote: > Here's the state of my search: BatteriesPlus is... odd. The corporate > site, and after a phone call, tell me they don't do GSA, but some of their > franchises do. I called the local one, and they do. > > However, the only RBC 43 they offer, I might as we

[CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor, cont'd

2013-02-12 Thread m . roth
Here's the state of my search: BatteriesPlus is... odd. The corporate site, and after a phone call, tell me they don't do GSA, but some of their franchises do. I called the local one, and they do. However, the only RBC 43 they offer, I might as well buy direct from APC, at well over $300 for the s

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/11/2013 01:57 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I need some new replacement batteries for rack-mount APC UPSes. My old > vender... well, the salesman I dealt with for several years left about a > year and a half ago, and last year's purchase was a disaster (wrong > batteries, wrong

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:49 PM, wrote: >> >> >>> We use BatteriesPlus a lot. Prices seem reasonable and our local one >>> will deliver to us. >>> >> That was... odd. I went to their corporate website, then called, and >> corporate doesn't do gov't contract, but stores migh

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:49 PM, wrote: > >> >> We use BatteriesPlus a lot. Prices seem reasonable and our local one will >> deliver to us. >> > That was... odd. I went to their corporate website, then called, and > corporate doesn't do gov't contract, but stores might. I called the store > near

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/11/2013 3:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/11/2013 12:13 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> Batteries Plus was reliable, but their prices were going up, so I had to >> look for a less expensive solution. > lead acid battery prices have gone up a lot due to the price of lead and > transportation. Tr

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread Joshua Zukerman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I need some new replacement batteries for rack-mount APC UPSes. My old > vender... well, the salesman I dealt with for several years left about a > year and a half ago, and last year's purchase was a disaster (wrong > batteries, wrong batte

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread m . roth
Charles Whitby wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, wrote: >> >> I need some new replacement batteries for rack-mount APC UPSes. My old >> vender... well, the salesman I dealt with for several years left about a >> year and a half ago, and last year's purchase was a disaster (wrong >> batteri

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2013 12:13 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Batteries Plus was reliable, but their prices were going up, so I had to > look for a less expensive solution. lead acid battery prices have gone up a lot due to the price of lead and transportation. -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/11/2013 2:57 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I need some new replacement batteries for rack-mount APC UPSes. My old > vender... well, the salesman I dealt with for several years left about a > year and a half ago, and last year's purchase was a disaster (wrong > batteries, wrong b

Re: [CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread Charles Whitby
We use BatteriesPlus a lot. Prices seem reasonable and our local one will deliver to us. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I need some new replacement batteries for rack-mount APC UPSes. My old > vender... well, the salesman I dealt with for several years left about a >

[CentOS] OT: UPS battery vendor

2013-02-11 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks. I need some new replacement batteries for rack-mount APC UPSes. My old vender... well, the salesman I dealt with for several years left about a year and a half ago, and last year's purchase was a disaster (wrong batteries, wrong batteries, months to get the shipping to return the wrong