On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:34:38 +0100 (BST)
"Dave Liquorice"  wrote:

> I've also seen a couple of rack mount APC UPS's with cooked/swollen
> batteries. One had to be junked as to remove the batteries would have
> required the chassis cutting apart.

 I've had a small desktop APC one go like that, there was no way the
batteries were coming out without completely trashing the case. Even if
there had been I wasn't about to subject another set of batteries to
circuitry that did that.

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