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UPS draws extra power for charging, which overloads generator: How sol...

Hello! This is a new one for me... We have two backup generators. One powers the server room, one powers the workstations. When the power went out today, we were surprised to discover that the workstat...
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new version of the be750g??

Hi all I recently bought a second apc be750g from amazon and it came in a new white packaging box The one i bought a few months back was a yellow box I am just wondering if there is a new version or is...
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BX1500-Strange Behavior?

I have a BX1500 connected to my server. 2 months ago I upgraded my server to Win2003Server SP2. The server runs fine. But for 2 weeks of "honeymoon" time the new OS kept shutting the server OFF telling...
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Do I have to break my BX1500G in? It's worse than my 4 year old BX120...

So I picked up a BX1500G a few months ago, tested fine but my 4 year old BX1200 is still running great so I took my time switching them out. I figured I wanted to see if my BX1200 was played out and in...
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Beep then shutdown

I have Windows 7 64 bit Dell Inspirion 580 and a APC Back-UPS ES 350. This APC product worked on my computer before this and know it doesn't work at all with my newer computer. It will sound once and t...
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Erroneous Low Battery Light?

I have BP500CLR APC unit for my personal computer and have had it for many years. The battery died (~4 years so not surprising I think the last one lasted about that long as well) and I ordered a new o...
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SU1400 with new batteries wont work

Hi everyone! I have an old SU1400 ups. It was working properly until about half year ago batteries died. Today i bought brand new batteries to revive my ups. I connected them properly, and plugged devi...
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BN1250 LCD shows ZERO time remaining when under load

Working perfectly until I had a severe power spike and the UPS immediately shut down. After power was restored and everything was up and running I noticed the TIME REMAINING was at ZERO. I removed the ...
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powerchute 2.0 doesn't shutdown my box with Windows XP SP3

Hello there I have APC back-ups es 700 conected to my home pc with windows XP sp3 installed I use PowerChute 2.0 Personal Edition shipped with ups. Weird things happen with it. It doesn't shutdown my p...
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BR900 Consistantly Using Battery

Good Morning, I purchased a few BR900 UPS's for an office and I have one hooked up to an HP Desktop computer/monitor. Like clockwork the UPS switches from AC power to using battery every 3 hours. It st...
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ES 700 (aka BE700G-GR) LAN (USB?) setup problem

Hello, I have recently bought a APC Back-UPC ES 700 (SKU: BE700G-GR, http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BE700G-GR) and have now very basic problem with setup: how do I conn...
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