burning down the house!

almost.

I came home to the smell of burning. I check every room and it's coming from mine.

I check the computer, nope, laptop, nope, wall worts... nope. Then as I bend down to look under my desk I get the strong odor up my nose, I look over and feel my UPS, it's burning hot.

Immediatley I shutdown the computer and pull the plug on the UPS and leave it sit for a couple hours. I then carefully open it up to find batteries that were on the verge of combustion, they were bulging out about 1/4" in several areas and got so hot that the two are now melted together into one.

I will not buy another Belkin UPS. I've had this one for a few years, have two of them actually. I'm thinking about taking the other out of commission for the slight chance of this happening, I knew it was coming upon battery replacement time but I've never had even dead batteries do that to me.