Recommend a Battery Backup

[imeldesign]

Our five year old Matrix3000 battery backup died. All six batteries are swollen and cracked (due to a power surge I think) It will be 600.00 to replace all of them. The thing is I don't need such a powerful battery backup any longer. After Hurricane Katrina (which the Matrix ran our phone system and voice mail for nearly four days) we set it up for our phone closet to be on the generator system in case of a major outage. So what I need now is a battery backup to run the Nec 2000 IPS, Neax 64 Voice Mail and 50 digital extensions for at least 30 minutes for outages from your garden variety thunderstorms.
Any recommendations?

 

[OzzieGeorge]

First we would need to know how many pims there are so we could calculate the load. but saying that why not just put a smaller number of batteries back in the matrix?

 

[imeldesign]

Just one pim. I thought about that too. I have a local guy who can sell me the batteries and will probably take them back if it ends up the logic board was damaged as well.
thanks

 

[gbaughma]

Actually, batteries swelling (especially gel-cells, which are sealed and don't "breathe") is not uncommon.

I had to disassemble an APC battery backup to change the batteries, because the batteries had swelled against the side of the cage.

TWICE.



Just my 2¢
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[OzzieGeorge]

Then again why not just buy a battery box(PIM) for your system and let it stand up for it's self?