UPS Internal Temperature

[Anonymous user]

How reliable is the use of the Internal Temperature of a UPS to gauge the room temperature?

I guess we should be using a netboz for this but don't have the funds 😞

[TheNotoriousKMP_apc]

Not sure how the best way to gauge this is, but we have an environmental manager which is reporting the lab temperature between 77 and 81 degrees in one location. A UPS located nearby reports its internal temperature at 78 degrees. Most of the UPS's around there are also reporting their temp as around 78. It may be a safe assumption, but I wouldn't hold the room temperature to the internal UPS temperature.

[Anonymous user]

many thanks.

[Anonymous user · Accepted solution]

I wouldn't trust the internal temperature read from the UPS. In my server room the UPSes are currently reading 81.3 F, 79 F, and 67.6 F (The last one has varied about 20 F a lot in the last 24 hours though). I also have a AP9340 in the rack as well and it is reading 67 F. The temperature in the room is set at 65 F.


If you are looking to monitor temperature, you don't have to get Netbotz. It is kind of expensive to monitor temperature. There are a couple of options you have: If you already have the AP9617 for your UPS, you can get the AP9619U (It will add environmental monitoring to your current UPS). If you don't have a AP9617, check out the AP9619, it will add an ethernet jack and temperature monitoring capabilities to your UPS. If you want an external unit you could go with the AP9319. It is a discontinued unit, but you can pick them up on Ebay for cheap. If you want something fancier check out the AP9340.

Message was edited by: jblack