2 UPS/Alarm batteries available

[gordonjcp at gjcp.net]

> At 06:50 17/05/2005, you wrote:
>
>>If anyone in the Seattle area needs 2 12V 7Ah alarm/UPS type lead acid
>>batteries (used, charged, still hold it) they are available.
>
> No good for me, I'm in the UK.  Shipping would be terrible..
>
> I have *two* 1kW Smart-UPS units with dead batteries.  (And two more which
> I am using but the batteries are 'weak'.)
>
> Is there any way of rejuvenating sealed lead-acid batteries or is it a
> case
> of once they fail to hold a charge, they are useless?  (And if so, does
> anybody know a very cheap UK supplier of them?)
>

The sealed lead acids are pretty cheap.  Try Maplins, or your local
non-franchised "big" electronics shop (Taits, in Glasgow, for me).

Where are you?

Gordon.