SMX1500 Battery Box

[mburns]

The older model of APC products had large battery boxes you could hook up to the rackmount gear.  I remember some had adapter cables, so you could use the older big battery boxes with the newer gear.  Does anything like this exist with the SMX1500 XL models? I want to use the plug in the back to hookup the older larger battery boxes? Does anyone know of anyone who has done this? Or is there a product I am not seeing?

I am tempted to just order a cord, cut the one end off, and put two O-rings on it for battery terminals, and just do it manually.   I see the newer cords have two female, and two male pins in between the two pins for the power. It appears to hookup to a little circuit board that detects if power is supplied by the looks of it.  I am afraid if I do something like this, it won't work anyway, due to the circuit board not being hooked up.  Can anyone confirm this? My luck, I will cut the end off a $100 cable, and it wont work.  

Thanks

[Teken]

This is the official extended battery pack for the SMX Series UPS:

https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SMX48RMBP2U/apc-smartups-xseries-external-battery-pack-rack-tower-...

The system incorporates a simple resistor network to determine if a battery pack is present and the quantity. 

In older SMX UPS firmware the number of extended battery packs were manually entered into the system as whole packs ( NOT) as individual battery cartridges.

If you search this forum you’ll see a really old thread about building one. 

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