07-23-2023, 11:41 PM
S. Pupp wrote:
My sole APC UPS recently gave its “battery has expired” scream. I looked in the instruction manual for the type of battery needed. The manual says the battery is not replaceable, and the unit must be discarded. I tried to disassemble the thing to find out what battery it needs, only to find that its screws seem largely to be for decoration - the blasted device is welded shut. I got the answer in the end, but I’m not going to go to the effort of melting the plastic case back together.
We are now an APC free home. Only Cyberpower can be found here.
Depends on the ‘level’ of UPS…I have 2 APCs at a property I own that I ‘rebatteried’ this month. On those units you slide open a door/cover on the bottoms of the UPS and the 2-batteries-on-a-connector-frame slide out. The UPS keeps supplying outlet power (but beeps a lot to let you know it doesn’t have a battery). Put the new batteries on the frame, slide them back in the unit, good to go.