• Re: Slightly OTT : Riello UPS

    From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to Martin Gregorie on Mon Feb 28 15:59:40 2022
    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:24:52 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    Today I fought clear of building my gliding club's duty rosters (an all-
    week job) for long enough to hit my local B&Q for a TORX key set. Just
    tried it on the Riello UPS: T8 fits the case retention screws as
    expected. Will get into UPS battery replacement as time permits: no
    rush as currently my house server is up and running directly from the
    mains.

    Following up: yesterday I opened the Riello's case: the TORX T8 tool did
    the job easily. The internals are neatly laid out with a lengthways metal partition, batteries on one side and a PCB on the other. Slightly to my surprise thare are no large transformers or particularly large capacitors inside.

    The old batteries came out easily enough, and show sign of bulging, case deformation, or leakage.

    The replacements went in equally easily.

    I've run it very briefly with no obvious problems shown.

    Further use awaits the purchase of more cabling since I've decided to
    rearrange the wiring and position of stuff under my computer bench: while
    doing that I found I need a manins-'extension, a double ended IEC cable
    with C13 and C14 connectors.

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  • From Chris Elvidge@3:770/3 to Martin Gregorie on Mon Feb 28 16:21:58 2022
    XPost: uk.comp.os.linux

    On 28/02/2022 15:59, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:24:52 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
    Today I fought clear of building my gliding club's duty rosters (an all-
    week job) for long enough to hit my local B&Q for a TORX key set. Just
    tried it on the Riello UPS: T8 fits the case retention screws as
    expected. Will get into UPS battery replacement as time permits: no
    rush as currently my house server is up and running directly from the
    mains.

    Following up: yesterday I opened the Riello's case: the TORX T8 tool did
    the job easily. The internals are neatly laid out with a lengthways metal partition, batteries on one side and a PCB on the other. Slightly to my surprise thare are no large transformers or particularly large capacitors inside.

    The old batteries came out easily enough, and show sign of bulging, case deformation, or leakage.

    The replacements went in equally easily.

    I've run it very briefly with no obvious problems shown.

    Further use awaits the purchase of more cabling since I've decided to rearrange the wiring and position of stuff under my computer bench: while doing that I found I need a manins-'extension, a double ended IEC cable
    with C13 and C14 connectors.


    When I renewed the batteries in my old APC UPSs, I had to run the test
    program to update the run-time variable.

    --
    Chris Elvidge
    England

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