Why on earth would you UPS a printer, more over a LASER printer that technically
should be on it's own BREAKER/circuit never mind a separate outlet?
On 2/14/2010 8:07 AM, Hunter, Gary wrote:
Hi,
I have a color laser printer (Brother HL-4040CDN) and an APC BACK_UPS ES 350
plugged into the same power outlet. A PC is hung off of the UPS along with some
speakers, a harddrive and two switches. The PC is nothing special and has 450w
PSU in it (can't remember the make but can look it up if it's important).
So the problem is when the printer comes out of sleep mode it temporarily draws
a lot more current and this causes the PC to shut down. I am assuming I have a
problem with the UPS maybe a bad battery, but the UPS is not beeping or
indicating it is bad in anyway. Am I correct in thinking the UPS is bad, or
could it be a combination of a bad power outlet and a bad UPS? I am thinking
when there is the increased current draw it delivers all the power to the top
socket and the bottom doesn't get any.
Any help would be appreciated.
