damn my UPS can start my fridge :o

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Originally posted by: Ornery
8.5" tall, 6.7" wide, 17.3" deep 42lbs

Start a fridge, hell, that could start your car! Is it a gel cell?

The battery "pack" is made of two 12V 12Ah sealed lead acid batteries. They're connected in series to form one 24V 12Ah pack.

The OEM battery is a pack. If you use generic, you'll have to tape two 12V batteries together so it takes like five minutes more to install.

The next higher model is 1400VA and it takes two 12V 18Ah batteries and weighs 53lbs while having the same dimensions.

Edit: These UPSes are annoying. It makes a series of three beeps every minute and you can not silence it short of electrically bypassing the speaker.

I have an old late 1980's Elgar 1,100 watt UPS. It is 17" high x 15" wide X 11" deep. It weighs over 40 lbs without batteries.

It takes 48 Volts. The battery pack is 4 12 Volt batteries. Each battery is 14 lbs so with the batteries the unit is nearly 100 lbs. Years ago the batteries were in the 15 amp each, now the same size batteries are 18 amps each.

I wired the electrical branch that feeds my computer room upstairs to go through the UPS. The UPS is in the garage below in the corner so when the power goes out the beeps are muted pretty well. It's great when we've had a couple of power outages, one that lasted 6 hours, the DSL stayed up and everything. My wife asked me if she should shut down and I told it's good for at least 8 hrs.

I change the batteries out about every 3 years.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Well I decided to give a good look at Energizer 800VA UPS they had at Circuit City and the box read "battery 12V 7Ah". That's the same as my 350VA. Even though you can get instantaneously higher VA, it's made like a wuss compared to mine and yours.

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Originally posted by: Ornery
8.5" tall, 6.7" wide, 17.3" deep 42lbs

Start a fridge, hell, that could start your car! Is it a gel cell?

The battery "pack" is made of two 12V 12Ah sealed lead acid batteries. They're connected in series to form one 24V 12Ah pack.

The OEM battery is a pack. If you use generic, you'll have to tape two 12V batteries together so it takes like five minutes more to install.

The next higher model is 1400VA and it takes two 12V 18Ah batteries and weighs 53lbs while having the same dimensions.

Edit: These UPSes are annoying. It makes a series of three beeps every minute and you can not silence it short of electrically bypassing the speaker.

I have an old late 1980's Elgar 1,100 watt UPS. It is 17" high x 15" wide X 11" deep. It weighs over 40 lbs without batteries.

It takes 48 Volts. The battery pack is 4 12 Volt batteries. Each battery is 14 lbs so with the batteries the unit is nearly 100 lbs. Years ago the batteries were in the 15 amp each, now the same size batteries are 18 amps each.

I wired the electrical branch that feeds my computer room upstairs to go through the UPS. The UPS is in the garage below in the corner so when the power goes out the beeps are muted pretty well. It's great when we've had a couple of power outages, one that lasted 6 hours, the DSL stayed up and everything. My wife asked me if she should shut down and I told it's good for at least 8 hrs.

I change the batteries out about every 3 years.