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Turns out battery seems fine, but even if it wasn't could have picked one up (on eBay) for not much.

Even better, the batteries they use are standard fare and can be bought brand new from battery dealers for much less than buying them from APC. You just have to reuse some hardware from the old batteries (the wire connecting them in two-battery models) and some stickytape to hold them together (which sounds like a lousy hack until you realize it's exactly what APC does).

In fact, you can get some gel batteries that are rated for deep cycling and get much better life than you would from the originals. Supposedly. (They are more expensive.)
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Bitt Faulk