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Resetting Surge protection on my ES 350

Hi. First time poster. I live in Maryland and work in the wine industry. This question regards my home PC setup. We experienced a power surge last night due to a downed tree at a substation. It does no...
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Did I fry my ES 550? blinking redlight / continuous beep

I had x2 mfw15 subwoofers which are rather large plugged into the surge only side of my ES 550. when I turned on the subs, the ES 550 turned off and began a continuios beep with red light blinking even...
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J15 ASW really that bad for home theater equipment?

Hey, I recently purchased a J15 that I am currently very happy with. However, I ran across a review of the S15 and the reviewer went on and on about how the approximated sine wave output from the lesse...
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clicking noise coming from surge protector

I purchased an APC power saving surge arrest at Circuit City and whenever I log onto my laptop th surge arrest unit makes an odd clicking noise. The clicking noise happens when I type on the keyboard m...
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Looking for the full UL Certification of Product P11VNT3

Hello All: Glad to see such an active cordial group of folks in this company's product line! [http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=P11VNT3] I am collecting agency approval do...
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Battery charging time on new BX1000G BACK-UPS XS 1000VA

Just brought home a new BX1000G and plugged it in over 6 hours ago. Battery charge indicator hasn't moved from the 40% mark. In fact, I think it was at 60% when I first plugged it in. The Serial Number...
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Connected batteries backward (I'm an idiot!) -- Is my APC Back-Ups t...

(Please don't ask how anyone could be so stupid. I work at it.) In doing a hurry-up install of a new battery pack in my Back-Ups XS900, I got an arc (of course). After suitably kicking my own rear end,...
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Back-UPS Pro or Smart-UPS?!?!

Hi. I have 2 custom built workstations and 4 Intel server machines. Since I'm moving in a new office which have some questionable power circuits (frequent power loss and fluctuations) I'm in need of a...
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pin assignment of 10pin RS232 connector from SMT 750i

Easy question: are sombody able to provide me the pin assignment of the 10pin RJ-45 (RS232) connector of SMT 750i? Thank´s
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No status output in SMT750i

Hello, as UPS "SUA750i" is no longer available, we would like to switch to "*SMT750i*". There is no difference in size, but the RS232 connector is different. In the old version "SUA750i" has a 9pin D-...
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Mobile- rough usage -Upside down -etc- even frozen

Hello I've got one of the little ones and I'm an event video guy traveling around from venue to venue recording video to DVD burners. I was always terrified that I'd lose ac power in the middle of a re...
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