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Hot!? Dynex 800VA UPS for $39!

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I work at best buy and from what I hear they are having huge problems trying to fix this. Enjoy it while you can though because i think it will be gone on sunday! I have already picked up 3 🙂
 
My local Best Buy doesn't have any; they said the model was discontinued. 😕 However, I ordered online anyway when it said my local store had it, and ends up they truly don't have any. They offered free ground shipping on it though, so I'll probably just settle for that.
 
If you don't see them out....ASK! I sent my wife over to the BB where I got the first one on BF and she said they didn't have them out. She went to the counter and asked, guy pulled one out from behind/underneath the counter and gave it to her!!

HOT DEAL and BB knows it! Go get 'em! 😀
 
Stopped by the by Almaden store in San Jose. Only one returned one sitting on the shelf there. Any South Bayers have any luck with these?
 
Originally posted by: BadThad
If you don't see them out....ASK! I sent my wife over to the BB where I got the first one on BF and she said they didn't have them out. She went to the counter and asked, guy pulled one out from behind/underneath the counter and gave it to her!!

HOT DEAL and BB knows it! Go get 'em! 😀
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My wife picked up mine also. I was on the cellphone with her telling her the stock number and what to get. She told them a Dynex 800VA UPS and they still acted like they didn't have them. I told her to tell them that the website showed them in stock at the store and for them to check their computer. I gave them the stock number. They finally relented and showed her where they were in a separate area from the other UPSes. I think this was intentional. If I hadn't been on the cell with her she never would have got them. On second thought, maybe they were just stupid.
 
i got screwed on this deal. used $30 in Best buy bucks, ordered, backordered, then cancelled. b/c it was cancelled i lost all those BBB
 
Just scored two from Greendale Mall BB in Worcester, MA. :beer: 😀

$6 McDs bucks + 100 in gift cards = free for me 😀
 
Originally posted by: MicroChrome
You can't swap higher capacity batteries into most off-the-shelf UPSes. That's not just because bigger batteries won't fit in the box; the standard charger circuitry is also unlikely to deal well with more capacity. If a charge takes longer than it should, or the charge current goes too high, the UPS is likely to assume there's something wrong with the battery.

Better commercial UPSes have a standard battery expansion connector; some cheap-ish units will deal OK with more battery capacity, but you have to solder your expansion cable to the appropriate terminals inside to make it happen. Don't bet on this being possible with J. Random UPS, though. And the more capacity you're adding, the less likely it is to work.

Oh, and if your cheapie UPS isn't expecting more battery capacity, it won't be expecting more run time either. So it may overheat and die, if forced to run at something near to full power for much longer than its standard battery could manage.

Use a dumb charger, like my DC power supply and a dedicated inverter of reasonable quality, and you won't have these limitations. You have to keep an eye on your battery, and you have to set your voltage carefully. But you can also use a bank of truck batteries to power your PC for a week without mains, if you like.



This is a good read ... The DIY (or, if you must, "Ghetto") UPS
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I never had a problem hooking up a low end APC 280 and APC 350 to car batteries.

They worked awesome. Sealed lead acid batteries are safer of course but since I never ran them down far at all, there was extremely little gas release that might have been more of a concern if they had.
 
Picked one up from the Oakdale, MN store - 39.99. There wasn't a price on the self, and the were opposite the rest of the apc/cyberpower ups, with the end of the carton facing the isle. If you weren't looking for them, you wouldnt find them. It looked like they had 9 or so.

I may pick up another one... I've already got a Belkin 750VA with Broadband... which one to use for the HTPC and which one to use for the office machine....
 
At the 71st & H169 Best Buy in Tulsa, OK they wer ealso separate from the other UPS's. There were only four left and I picked up one of them.

Hooking up a Dell e773 15" monitor, the Sempron in my sig, WRT54G, Motorola cable modem I get 38 minutes running time. Not bad I don't think.
 
Originally posted by: 21Outlaw
At the 71st & H169 Best Buy in Tulsa, OK they wer ealso separate from the other UPS's. There were only four left and I picked up one of them.

Hooking up a Dell e773 15" monitor, the Sempron in my sig, WRT54G, Motorola cable modem I get 38 minutes running time. Not bad I don't think.
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Wow....38 minutes ROCKS! :thumbsup:
 
Picked one up from Rte 59 Best Buy in Aurora, IL. There are like 12 left. The guy said $89. I told him to check and it was only $39.99. Thanks OP.
 
thanks op, picked one up today.
had like 15 or so sitting like a christmas tree in the ups section with a big yellow sign saying $89.99.

I took one and took it to the cash register and it rang up $39.99, didnt even bother to ask them to price check first. 🙂

good find.
 
I like that the software lists the wattage being drawn off its battery ports. So thats nice to see how much your drawing and you can watch it go up and down as things fire up like hard drives or cd rom drives. I like it so far, my old belkin broke so this was perfect timing...
 
Originally posted by: Tsunami982
is that after rebate? i really wanted a 1500 because with a 19" lcd and a fairly built up computer (with high wattage psu) youll probably realistically only be getting 5 minutes MAX out of this (dont trust what the manufacturer says on the box) but this deal is pretty good.
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Originally posted by: 21Outlaw
Hooking up a Dell e773c 15" CRT monitor, the Sempron in my sig, WRT54G and my Motorola Surfboard cable modem I get 38 minutes running time according to the software. Not bad I don't think.
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The manual says to expect about 28 minutes.
 
Originally posted by: jjsole
Originally posted by: MicroChrome
You can't swap higher capacity batteries into most off-the-shelf UPSes. That's not just because bigger batteries won't fit in the box; the standard charger circuitry is also unlikely to deal well with more capacity. If a charge takes longer than it should, or the charge current goes too high, the UPS is likely to assume there's something wrong with the battery.

Better commercial UPSes have a standard battery expansion connector; some cheap-ish units will deal OK with more battery capacity, but you have to solder your expansion cable to the appropriate terminals inside to make it happen. Don't bet on this being possible with J. Random UPS, though. And the more capacity you're adding, the less likely it is to work.

Oh, and if your cheapie UPS isn't expecting more battery capacity, it won't be expecting more run time either. So it may overheat and die, if forced to run at something near to full power for much longer than its standard battery could manage.

Use a dumb charger, like my DC power supply and a dedicated inverter of reasonable quality, and you won't have these limitations. You have to keep an eye on your battery, and you have to set your voltage carefully. But you can also use a bank of truck batteries to power your PC for a week without mains, if you like.



This is a good read ... The DIY (or, if you must, "Ghetto") UPS
Click to expand...

I never had a problem hooking up a low end APC 280 and APC 350 to car batteries.

They worked awesome. Sealed lead acid batteries are safer of course but since I never ran them down far at all, there was extremely little gas release that might have been more of a concern if they had.
Click to expand...
Ya, i had recently upped a 7200mah battery with a 9000mah and the UPS is working perfectly fine. Granted my success might be due to the minor incremental upgrade, and or the allowances of the UPS itself.
 
thank you OP. got one on kirkwood highway in delaware (taxfree). there were a bunch (10+) but i guess that is redundant now.
 
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