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  • Re: a brief interlude on UPS batteries

    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to August Abolins on Sun Nov 22 11:42:00 2020
    August Abolins wrote to Jay Harris <=-

    That's a pretty good arrangement. I have had to resort to 3rd
    party batteries for a couple of my Thinkpad laptops and they
    are just not as good with running time as were the OEM.

    Yeah, it's definitely worth paying more for the Lenovo-branded
    batteries. In the long run you end up paying the same as if you
    bought 2 or 3 third-party batteries but with less waste.


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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Kurt Weiske on Sun Nov 22 20:52:00 2020
    Hello Kurt!

    ** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 11:42, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

    Yeah, it's definitely worth paying more for the Lenovo-
    branded batteries. In the long run you end up paying the
    same as if you bought 2 or 3 third-party batteries but
    with less waste.

    [A reply to you is via netmail]

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Jay Harris on Sat Nov 21 22:17:00 2020
    Hello Jay!

    ** On Saturday 21.11.20 - 09:24, Jay Harris wrote to August Abolins:

    We have a battery shop here in Hamilton (called Acme
    battery) that carries all shapes & sizes of batteries.
    We have 4 or 5 UPSs for various things here at home.

    When I see ACME, all I can think of is Wyle E. Coyte.


    When a battery decides to bite the bullet, we bring it to
    Acme Battery who recycles the old one for us and sells us
    a replacement for about ~$30.

    That's a pretty good arrangement. I have had to resort to 3rd
    party batteries for a couple of my Thinkpad laptops and they
    are just not as good with running time as were the OEM.


    May be worth seeing if you have a battery shop in your
    neck of the woods.

    Nope. I'm too rural and too far away from the hustle and
    bustle of places like you describe.

    This the APC UPS that I mentioned earlier:

    http://pics.rsh.ru/img/ups1000va_j4bu69ov.jpg

    I am sure the number of minutes drops significantly when it
    actually needs to operate.

    "We now return you to regular FUTURE4FIDO programming."


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