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Add power module and battery module to Symmetra LX

I am going to add a power module and battery module to my Symmetra LX. This will take me from a 12kva to a 16kva and will fill up the battery slots. My question, this process is all hot swappable, righ...
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Can AP9617 network mgt card be installed without interruption to UPS?

Can AP9617 network mgt card be installed without interruption to UPS? Have like 26 APC 3000 series UPS's and need to install these cards. Can these be "just pushed in" or does the UPS have to be turne...
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UPS 1500VA self test?

I have a number of 1500VA devices that are reporting they failed the self test via our monitoring tool. When checking the status of these devices via the management card there are no alarms present but...
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battery time estimation

Hi, We just bought a UPS system for our 3 servers. 1 x SUA2200XL and 2 x UXABP48. We'd like to know how long this UPS can make our server run. In powerchute it says we could get more than 1000 minutes ...
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9617 has no MAC address

I've got a 9617 running on a Symmetra RM 6000. I just recently upgraded the firmware and now the mac address shows as 00 00 00 00 00 00. Is the card done or is there a way to get the mac back in it? I ...
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1500va backup time

I have got SUA1500i one week back. When power goes off, within 3 second battery remaining gets down to 75% remaining :(. And I get 1 hour backup at 180W whereas APC website suggests it should be 1.5 ho...
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Smart-UPS 1500VA w/ Interface Expander AP9607 & Powerchute Command Fil...

OK, this setup is taking years off my life due to the stress I'm encountering in trying to get it working properly. We have a Smart-UPS 1500VA with two Windows 2003 servers and one Windows XP Pro serve...
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Screaming SUA750RM2U

I have had something interesting happen to me twice now with SUA750RM2U units. I manage about 100 of these over the network and have a rotating inventory. The last one this happened to is a 2006 model...
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Communication Lost repeatedly occuring Smart-UPS RT 5000 XL

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SURT Series showing Refused a self-test; UPS is overloaded

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SU3000 - Which battery to replace?

Hello. Apologies if this question has been answered many times before, but I'm not finding any reference to it when I search. We have an SU3000RMXL3U with, I believe, 5 internal batteries ( 1 in the un...
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