On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 01:11:22PM -0600, Tyler Harmor wrote: > Having had several UPS' fail on me over the years, I can agree with that > statement at it's core. The problem with it however, is if not UPS (battery > tech), then what? Unfortunately, there aren't many viable options available > out there today (short of having a diesel generating on standby next to your > garage).
Thanks for pointing out that I was being unclear. If the battery fails and there's a black-out, then the UPS can't do anything but fail. However, in the case I was referring to earlier, the UPS failed when there was still AC power available. The stupid thing turned off because the battery was having a problem, even though it didn't actually need to use the battery at that time. I've seen this several times with APC UPSes. Hopefully they've fixed this design problem in newer models. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
