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CS 500 always "On battery", even there is no battery inside, wont turn...

Hi, I have Back up UPS CS 500. When the unit is connected on power source there is a yellow light "On battery", even there is no battery inside. The unit wont turn off. I don't have data cable. Unit is...
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Data line protection problem Back-UPS Pro 1000

Good Afternoon Everyone, I'm hoping that someone out there may have run into this issue already and found a solution they could share. I recently purchased a Pro 1000, through APCs trade-in program. Af...
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No Lights, One Side Working

Hi. I have an ES 750 (BE750G, 380815x54656) that was working fine until a couple of weeks ago. Had a storm come in and power was off for several hours. Now, there are no lights on the unit and only the...
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XS900 Failures

I had three of these on separate circuits powering separate computers and within the the past 4 months all three have died in a very bad way - Red Overload Light Buzzing Immediate Shutdown of Everythi...
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Thin client extended runtime

I'm looking to provide extended runtime for a thin client and a small lcd monitor.....total draw would be less than 50w, actually closer 40w. I'm looking to achieve 3+ hours of runtime......can I just ...
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Shutdown not Hibernate/Sleep

Due to some driver limitations on my system (will not recover smoothly from hibernate), I need to "Shutdown' my Windows 7 system at critical battery, and then shut off the power on the BE550G UPS. I ha...
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ES series 360 power back up

I am gonna call technical tomorrow, but I wanna ask here.. While I just had a heavy thunderstorm from around 5pm too 7pm, the power flickered once, the powerchut program notified me that it's on backup...
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APC BE500U - where is USB?

Hey all, I have a few APC BE500U battery backups. The APC Website, and everything else said there should be USB with it? Because I want to install powerchute to have a monitoring software for them. I ...
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Unable to install PCPE_2.2_en-US in Windows 7 Enterprise 64

Update: I am able to reproduce the problem on another workstation, also running Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise. I am unable to install PCPE_2.2_en-US in Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit using an SU1000XL. It i...
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Lost 2 UPS in 2 days.

I'm running 2 small logging units (4-20 milliamp stuff) and a desktop PC off a UPS XS 1500 and a similar amount of hardware off a XS 1300. Both the XS 1500 and XS 1300 are powered by the same generator...
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UPS ES 350 shutdown

I guess I made the mistake of getting this battery as the salesman said it was the most popular for what I needed. However, now I find out it doesn't have automatic shutdown software. So what happens i...
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