Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Proposition 65 warning: this video (probably) is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
It's here that I'll point out the NCR branded UPS I have that was still running well on its original batteries (from 2002!) in February 2018. It'd probably still be running on them today had the batteries not been damaged by water and corrosion. (They were CSB supplied batteries, the same as these.) Not a one of those batteries were bloated or distressed in any way, and they still carried a heavy load for ten minutes or so.
This begs the question as to what Eaton/Powerware's engineers knew that APC's haven't yet figured out. More importantly, though, why do people let these things get so far out of hand? This UPS was uselessly dead (as they won't start from bad batteries) long before things got this far out of hand.
Looking back on this, it might have been better to insert blocks of wood into the space freed up by the batteries as they moved outward. I could have continued to use the hammer as a lever that way.
Proposition 65 warning: this video (probably) is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
It's here that I'll point out the NCR branded UPS I have that was still running well on its original batteries (from 2002!) in February 2018. It'd probably still be running on them today had the batteries not been damaged by water and corrosion. (They were CSB supplied batteries, the same as these.) Not a one of those batteries were bloated or distressed in any way, and they still carried a heavy load for ten minutes or so.
This begs the question as to what Eaton/Powerware's engineers knew that APC's haven't yet figured out. More importantly, though, why do people let these things get so far out of hand? This UPS was uselessly dead (as they won't start from bad batteries) long before things got this far out of hand.
Looking back on this, it might have been better to insert blocks of wood into the space freed up by the batteries as they moved outward. I could have continued to use the hammer as a lever that way.
