Re: [Nut-upsuser] My Back-UPS RS 1000 went haywire, any ideas?

2023-10-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Gennadiy Poryev via Nut-upsuser writes: > I took an external voltmeter and made sure that actual input voltage > is around 223 V and is not changing. However, each successive run of > upsc indicated drastically different "input.voltage", arbitrarily > jumping from 160 V to 280 V. Besides this,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] My Back-UPS RS 1000 went haywire, any ideas?

2023-10-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Good advice from Jim K, I wonder if Gennadiy's input power plugs & sockets or cable or trip fuse have got loose, dirty, high resistance ? Doesnt seem a battery problem, but always worth checking: One can measure a battery's internal resistance by disconnecting, & connecting across a car headlamp

Re: [Nut-upsuser] My Back-UPS RS 1000 went haywire, any ideas?

2023-10-28 Thread Jim Klimov via Nut-upsuser
Is the battery old? PbAc ones usually last for 2-3 years and then degrade. Should be a field-replaceable part. Some 20 years ago I had an APC BackUPS become a glorified power strip every few years, so when the wall power disappeared - load went down immediately. It was also beeping about battery

[Nut-upsuser] My Back-UPS RS 1000 went haywire, any ideas?

2023-10-28 Thread Gennadiy Poryev via Nut-upsuser
Hi, I am sorry for possible offtopic as this question is not quite NUT-related but I cannot imagine any other place with people of such deep and intimate knowledge of UPS behavior. One day all of a sudden my APC Back-UPS RS 1000 refused to go online (green led) even though mains was