[Soekris] small battery backup??

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <65017196F52C5433B456A430 at megalith.spacehopper.org>, Stuart Henderso
n writes:
>--On 25 October 2004 18:58 -0500 Christopher Snell 
><chris.snell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:56:50 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp
>> <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/ups/
>>
>> That's pretty cool, but I have very shaky hands and soldering is
>> extremely difficult for me.  Any idea where we could buy something
>> pre-made?
>

There are companies that make complete boxes of this kind, but they're
targeted at fire and burglar-alarms so they tend to be costly.

Check out these guys: http://www.ibexmfg.com/  I've never tried their
products but their entire web-presence is wonderfull no nonsense and
their app-notes contain all you'll ever need to know about lead-acid
batteries.

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