Re: APC Professional Powercell UPS

So what's the difference between a ' real ' power outage, and pulling the
plug or the house breaker ? Are you talking reduced line voltage brownout
here, or full loss of power supply to the house ?


"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Hello all!
>
> I have the already mentioned UPS. It came to me with a dead battery, so I
> arranged for a large 12 volt gel-cell battery (brand new!) to be hooked up
> to it. The UPS charges this battery, but there is something funny going
> on.
>
> If a "real" power outage occurs, this UPS will simply turn off. It will
> not
> go to battery power like it should. For all intents and purposes it
> appears
> to be dead. It is certainly not overloaded...all I have attached is one 60
> watt light bulb and an SMC 16 port 100Mbit network switch. More often than
> not the light bulb is turned off, though this does not seem to matter.
>
> But if I "fake" a power outage by doing any of pulling the plug, turning
> off
> the circuit breaker or even pulling the house main out, the UPS switches
> to
> battery and works like it ought to until the battery is depleted.
>
> I'm pretty sure the large battery is not a problem here. I have another of
> the same UPS that still has the proper battery in it. This battery works
> no
> better in the troublesome unit during a "real" power outage. Likewise, the
> large battery works fine on the properly functioning unit during a real
> power outage.
>
> Any thoughts? I'm stumped and I would appreciate any insights on this.
>
> William
>
>


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