When is a UPS battery actually bad? APC SUA750

[Alex Hewitt]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:11 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 6/17/08, Alex Hewitt <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Which basically says - the indicator doesn't necessarily mean the
> > battery is bad. It has some kind of timer which turns the LED on
> > theoretically one to two months before the battery "might" need
> > replacing.
> 
>   Woot!  Shared technology between UPS batteries and car engine status
> lights!  :-D
> 

A good chunk of the time the UPS has long since passed it's "sell by
date" and the users just keep the things plugged in. The batteries are
useless as is the UPS but hey it's cheaper than buying a new one (that
works). ;^)

-Alex