Oscar Zuniga wrote: > Question for you electronics types. One of our office UPSs died and I > snagged it on its way out to the trash. Opening it up, I see that it's quite > easy to replace the two sealed 7Ah, 12V batteries and put it back online > again. However, it occurred to me that it might also be just fine to use as > a trickle charger for any 12V battery of this type, if I replace the internal > battery leads with some longer ones with alligator or battery-type clamps. > Wouldn't this work OK? > > These small desktop PC style UPSs get tossed out all the time and if they > didn't die due to taking a surge on one or more of the MOVs, it would seem > that they would make dandy chargers. Comments?Oscar Zuniga > Air Camper NX41CC > San Antonio, TX > mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com > website at http://www.flysquirrel.net > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > Generally, those will work for similar batteries. Smaller batteries would likely require the charge current be decreased, and larger ones, increased. In the absence of any actual numbers, I suspect those charge current ranges will overlap when the batteries are close in their ratings.
-- Glenn Martin Owner Martek Mississippi Electronic Repair 13238 Hudson-Krohn Rd Biloxi, MS, 39532 rep...@martekmississippi.com
