I have a reasonably large UPS connected to my homeseer computer (among a few other things) and recently that computer started rebooting once or twice a day. It was driving me nuts and I couldn't figure out what was going on until I needed to turn off the circuit that powers the UPS. As soon as the circuit went off the UPS went off and along with it, the computer. Apparently the battery in the UPS was so dead that even if the power fluctuated a bit and the UPS tried to kick on the battery wouldn't hold out and the computer lost power for long enough to cause it to reset.
I pulled another smaller UPS that I had on the shelf and replaced the bad one and my HS computer stopped spontaneously rebooting, which made me very happy.
Last night, I decided that I liked having the higher capacity UPS on the HS computer, so I figured it was worth replacing the batteries. I opened it up to try to determine what kind of batteries it used and discovered that the SLA batteries seem to have become unsealed and both batteries were leaking from the negative terminals. Luckily the UPS itself doesn't appear to have been damaged, but there are a few piles of dried battery acid crud around the bottom of the battery compartment as well as some liquid acid along the sides of the compartment and on the battery connector.
What can I use to neutralize the acid and clean up the mess in the compartment and prevent the battery connector from corroding so I can salvage this UPS?
Also, along a slightly different note, the batteries were connected on one side with a little 36V 100A fuse that screwed into the terminals on each battery. That fuse seems to be in pretty bad shape... the terminal where it connected to the leaking negative terminal on the battery is pretty badly corroded and it's plastic housing appears to have melted. Any idea where I could get a replacement fuse?
Thanks,
Brett
I pulled another smaller UPS that I had on the shelf and replaced the bad one and my HS computer stopped spontaneously rebooting, which made me very happy.
Last night, I decided that I liked having the higher capacity UPS on the HS computer, so I figured it was worth replacing the batteries. I opened it up to try to determine what kind of batteries it used and discovered that the SLA batteries seem to have become unsealed and both batteries were leaking from the negative terminals. Luckily the UPS itself doesn't appear to have been damaged, but there are a few piles of dried battery acid crud around the bottom of the battery compartment as well as some liquid acid along the sides of the compartment and on the battery connector.
What can I use to neutralize the acid and clean up the mess in the compartment and prevent the battery connector from corroding so I can salvage this UPS?
Also, along a slightly different note, the batteries were connected on one side with a little 36V 100A fuse that screwed into the terminals on each battery. That fuse seems to be in pretty bad shape... the terminal where it connected to the leaking negative terminal on the battery is pretty badly corroded and it's plastic housing appears to have melted. Any idea where I could get a replacement fuse?
Thanks,
Brett