now that it's way too late to point this out, but maybe it'll help someone somday:
most UPSes can be configured to not play the sound. -wes On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:30 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > I think (but may be mistaken) that I mentioned this here several months > ago, that I had an APC Back-UPS something-or-other complain about failing > batteries. And that I replaced the batteries, but the confounded thing kept > beeping at me, reliably, every 14 minutes and 53 seconds. The UPS is in my > basement, you can hear it throughout the ground floor of the house, more > faintly on the second floor, and super loud in the basement itself. In > April, I bought a diagnostic cable to try to figure out what it was > complaining about, but I didn't get anything informative out of it. > > Then, months later, just about a week ago, having considered just finding > the wire to the speaker that was making the sound and cutting it, I was > standing in a particular spot in the basement where the direction to the > beep could be discriminated at the exact moment it happened to beep, and I > got a clue: the direction wasn't exactly in the direction I expected. > Another minute of closer inspection, and it appeared that *A COMPLETELY > DIFFERENT UPS* was responsible for the beeps. > > The replacement battery arrived today, and I plugged it in. > > The house seems eerily quiet now. > > -- > Russell >
