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Smart-UPS 1500i battery warning then normal

I have a Smart-UPS 1500i that in the last two days has occasionally been bleeping and flashing the Replace Battery light, with all the battery status lights off. After a while (haven't timed it, but pr...
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The battery power is too low to continue to support the load; the UPS ...

UPS: Smart-UPS RT 6000 RM XLBoth batteries replaced with APC genuine on 3/31/21Calibration completed successfully and showing 30 minutes of runtime but still have this error message The battery power ...
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APC UPS network cards in Smart UPS 3000 XLs

All of the documentation implies that it is critically important to power off the UPS chassis. Is it "OMG SRSLY DO THIS OR YOU FRY YOUR UPS" critically important, or more like "well if something happ...
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Smart-UPS SC1500 immediately dropping to 0 charge

I have a Smart-UPS SC1500. Admittedly quite old, but works fines, except... Even after a full charge (battery voltage almost 27V), when disconnecting mains power it immediately reports the battery char...
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Problems upgrading firmware on a SMX1000

I was trying to upgrade a SMX1000 Serial AS1539213xxx and Firmware Revision 09.1 (ID20) with the suggested SMT20UPS_10-2.enc via the Wizard 4.2.1 without any success as comunication was lost through t...
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Warranty on an APC RBC

Hi, I purchased an RBC from Amazon. Does the warranty start date begin on the day the item was purchased/shipped or does it being on a manufacturing date or something else that could be impacted by ho...
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smt1500 stuck at 12%!

so this unit says load 0% battery 12% with the battery and load 0% battery 12% with 2 new rbc7 batteries fresh out of the box. any thoughts or ideas? tried a factory reset, self test, leaving it off f...
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APC Smart UPS + ESXI. What do you do?

So I've just bought myself a APC Smart UPS. It doesn't have a management card. But I will be looking to get one in the near future. What do you do with a UPS connected to the ESXI Host? A few simple ...
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Smart-UPS 1000 won't stop beeping and LED flashing.

Help! I installed new batteries into the UPC (very low voltage output from the two-batteries, roughly 1.3V). After that, I get no response from the UPS. No lights on or flashing, no beeping... nothing....
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SMT1000RM2U vs SMT1500RM2U

Through my research i had found that there wasn't many differences between these two models except the batteries inside of them? Does anyone know of any differences between these units?
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SMT1000RM2U no fan installed?

Hello everyone! From my research it seems that the SMT1000 does not come with a fan built into the back rather the fans come installed on SMT1500 model and up. Is this correct? Is that something th...
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