UPS Part 3 and clean up! Completed!

After pulling the batteries out and having a closer look at everything I noticed that one wire had some damage done to the outer plastic shielding however it had not gone through to the copper wires.

Gotta treat these with respect

I decided that I should repair that little issue and grabbed some heat shrink and the trusty heat-gun to patch it up.

Before

After

After the new batteries arrived I plugged them in and let them charge for the next day. The next day I decided to test the system and unplug it while it had a load on it and it worked! I had the system on the UPS for 5 minutes and the new batteries still had another 15 minutes left in them.

Bit messy…

I decided to take the opportunity and clean up my little area, do some cable management and whatnot.

Before and After

After that bit of work, I was presented with a nice clean computer area!

Hooray, all clean!

So at the end of the day, I’ve taken a few things from this learning experience with UPS systems.

I should look at getting a network managed UPS so it can shut down everything plugged into it. I’ve been looking and it looks like I can use a small VM on the ESXi server to do this. Its a bit of extra work but it will have everything turn off gracefully in the case of an event where I am not around.
Batteries can be expensive! I went with the cheap eBay ones but if they are going to last the next year or two, ill find out!
Cable Management at the start is important. If you keep stacking stuff on each other its a real pain to manage later.

All in all, I got a very decent UPS system ( 1400KV-1000W) for just under 130$ AUD. Personally, I am quite happy with that and now I have a good UPS for the future FreeNas project!

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