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D Yuniskis wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Thomas Tornblom wrote:


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I have been contemplating using two full size 60Ah car batteries
externally instead of the small 7Ah internals.

Make sure you keep a couple fire extinguishers handy.


Such a modified UPS would clearly run for much longer, but given the
run time of a typical UPS on its standard batteries, I'd have thought
any heat sinks would be approaching thermal equilibrium, and wouldn't
get much hotter on an extended run.

Charging?


I think the point was that lead acid car batteries produce H2.
Quite easy to ignite *in* a house :


He could always put them outside.

Sylvia.