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Posted: 2023-09-24 01:29 PM
Hi, Im glad finally I can post here.
last week I bought an APC UPS SMV1500. It works well, but noticed a weird behaviour with its fan on the back.
Fan starts at Full Speed after I plug in to power grid, then gradually lowers speed. After a minute or so it stop, but fan starts to screech quite annoying.
By experience I know thats caused because power is too low to fan keep spinning. So I tried with another fan, I had an old CPU which used for test. surprisingly the CPU fan kept spinning at low speed.
Then I tried a Noctua NF A6x25 FLX (60mm) as replacement...sadly it fails at lowest speed, and it never recovered until I restart the unit (strange) So I cant get a decent replacement for this fan.
My doubt is if its how its intended to work? Fan Stopped but screeching like that? If I get the exact same replacement for the fan Im afraid it will stop as well.
I cant even make it with fan disconnected if I want to install a custom controller, because fan error alerts.
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Posted: 2024-09-24 09:16 AM
Same issue with same model
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