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Low runtime on battery

Unit: APC BACK-UPS RS 1300VA LCD 120V This ups is approximately 2 years old. The batteries were not holding a charge, so I replaced them. I let it charge overnight. The battery Icon is showing full. Wi...
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Need difiitive answer on Mac usage with SC1500

I have the SC1500. It has a USB to serial cable. When I plug this into my Mac the UPS tab does not appear in the Preferences/power save menu. Many people say that this menu appears when they plug their...
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NMC 9617/9630 - cannot generate emails in DHCP mode

Hi, I have been doing some testing for assigning IP addresses through DHCP for the UPS network cards 9617 and 9630. They can aquire a DHCP address succesfully and generate the emails as required. But o...
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UAC Prompt at Logon Windows 7 PCPE

I've noticed that this issue has been going on since last year.. i recently installed the new version yesterday from version 2 and im wondering why is version 3 for windows 7 still available for downlo...
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UPS for cordless phone

I have been an APCC user for more than 20 years now and I still have a number of APCC products at home for my computers, routers ... This time, I am looking for a UPS just to back up my cordless phone,...
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Help me choose a UPS

Hi. I have a new computer with an 850Watt PSU, a semi-expensive video card (GTX 580 "Phantom"), 4 hard discs including an SSD, and a Dell U2711 monitor that uses a maximum of 134Watts. I am NOT concern...
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Ups autoshutdown and like a orange led was flashing

Hi i have a problem, in the night when i wake up my ups 350 es, was off.... And a orange (i think that is orange) led was flashing and any thing plugged in the backuap was working... What mean this??
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TV channels lost

When I run my cable TV coax through the UPS unit to protect against surges, I lose some HD channels. This happens with and without a splitter in the line. If I simply bypass the UPS connection all is o...
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BR-900 spurious overloads

My BR-900 UPS has been prone to going into overload shutdown since new. It does this even though the total load is a small fraction of the unit's rated capacity. This generally happens in place of pick...
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Back-Ups XS 1300 LCD battery has gone bad

Now I was planning on buying a replacement battery, but in the meantime, I wanted to remove the old battery so I could recycle it. I'm having difficulty removing it however, its stuck, I can only get i...
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APC ES-350 Turns off by itself in the night time.

Hi, I just recently moved to a new house. I've had the same problem the past 2 nights. I'll wake up and the APC ES-350 UPS unit (5 years old) is completely off. It did have a computer, monitor, compute...
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