- Oct 9, 1999
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I've got an old APC UPS 2000 sitting in my basement. It is a two piece stackable unit with one piece being about the size of an APC BACK-UPS 650 120V. One unit is the actual UPS, and the other is full of four batteries in series. Every single one of these batteries is very - very dead.
I'm too broke at the moment to go out and buy either a new UPS unit, or suggested batteries for it, and am looking for a solution for the interm. What I've done is hook up a car battery in place of the four batteries in series. I realize the quality of the singal that a car battery gives is not something that would be called clean, or good for computer electronics. However, would this be good enough for a quick solution in a power outage? (ie. Good enough to shut down the computer manually)
I'm too broke at the moment to go out and buy either a new UPS unit, or suggested batteries for it, and am looking for a solution for the interm. What I've done is hook up a car battery in place of the four batteries in series. I realize the quality of the singal that a car battery gives is not something that would be called clean, or good for computer electronics. However, would this be good enough for a quick solution in a power outage? (ie. Good enough to shut down the computer manually)