I've had the 2u rackmount APCs eventually get hot and overcharge the battery. They'd be quite warm with little or no load, and the batteries would bulge. This is in 72f datacenter. They last much shorter in 95 degree heat in my opinion. When it happens, we pull them out of service and use a tripplite APS. For small cheap UPSs we get a APC backups or tripplite or whatever is onsale at staples.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:29:26AM -0600, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > It is getting ready to fail. I have had two APCs that got hot and > failed soon after. One made for an awful stink in the NOC when it > finally went. I thought the building was on fire. > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > > On 7/27/2010 7:39 PM, Forbes Mercy wrote: > > One of my UPS's at a house/tower was chirping, I sent a technician to > > pull the unit in for testing. It was so hot that they had to wrap it in > > towels to move it, it wasn't chirping when he got there. It has a > > minimum load of about 3-4 amps for a couple Mikrotik and Motorola radios > > on it with a switch and remote reboot unit. The UPS was in an attic of > > the house and it is averaging about 95 degrees (we don't have humidity > > here) outside so I figure over 100 in the attic. I'll let it cool down > > overnight in the office but my guess is the chirping was a high temp > > warning, any ideas? > > > > SmartAPC Model SUA 750 - about a year old. > > > > Forbes > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- /* Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ */ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
