Here's an example. Both of my APC 1500VA units use the same battery configuration, even though the units themselves were purchased 10 years apart.
This is the battery...
You can see that's it really just two standard 1290 batteries attached together. So I cut the tape holding the batteries...
That's interesting, because I have several UPS units, and they all use standard batteries that can be found cheap. In the case of the bigger 1500VA APC ones, they appear to have a non-standard battery, but it's actually just two standard batteries with connector device to hold them together. I...