[Discuss] UPSes

[R. McFarlane]

On 12/11/06 7:18 PM, David Bronaugh wrote:

> The reason I am suspicious that it is not simply a battery failure is 
> that the unit's front panel display went into a mode where all of the 
> lights on the front panel started blinking and power to the devices 
> connected to the UPS was disconnected. This mode is not discussed in 
> either their paper or their online manual for this UPS. The dead battery 
> light was never lit.
> 
> That kind of behaviour screams either "piece of crap" or "equipment 
> fault" -- either of which I'm not particularly impressed with. UPSes 
> that decrease uptime are generally considered a "bad thing".


	In that case you very well may be correct. :)

	I have not had an APC fail on me like that, but that does not in any 
way mean it does not happen. I would concur that something internally 
has failed and a replacement is needed.

	I will be upgrading my APC's just as soon as I can since the last 
outage has shown me that my capacity is far too low to survive. Granted 
an outage of that magnitude may not happen again for years to come, but 
the cost to have the battery power is trivial for my needs.

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