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Back Ups XS 1500 is acting up

Computer shut off like the plug had been pulled.Battery charge indicator is flashing with no bars.Input voltage is 127V. Battery tested charged with multimeter (25.8V) and red and black connections tes...
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Issues with Powerchute for the Mac and OS 10.6.3

There are a number of people who have had this issue that you can find via Google, but I can't find any reference to this here. Sorry if it's a repeat. I had a perfectly working Powerchute running on m...
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UPS prevenitive maintenance

Is there a way to tell BEFORE a UPS fails? We've had several, that were old, fail for "no reason". I'm sure it's just because the battery was old, but is there a way to check them to see how the batter...
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total 4500W power from one receptacle

Dear Friends, I have APCSURTD5000. Is it possible to extract all power from single receptacle? Can the socket provided can take all the load? I need to connect only one instrument consuming around 4.3K...
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SmartUPS 1000, Battery unable to support the load problem.

I currently own 2 SmartUPS 1000 models. The first one had a battery replacement over half a year ago, the second one just recently. With the first one all went well, but the second UPS still complains ...
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Back UPS Auto Start after low battery shutdown

I need some expert advice To my understanding APC BACK-UPS CS & RS uses Simple signaling meaning it cannot receive and store a delay time. Therefore even if the OS has succesfully shutdown the UPS ...
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ES 350 beeping 4 times every 30 second, but green light still on

After moving to a new house, I plugged my ES 350 in, and the green light is on. But it beeps 4 times every 30 seconds. The knowledge base talks about this beeping with an amber light, but mine is green...
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Back-UPS RS 800 + Windows 7 x64 ? Driver ??

Hi I just bought an APC Back-UPS RS 800. The ups is not recognised under Windows 7 x64. The system tells me there is an unknown device connected to my pc. Is there any solution ? Where are the x64 driv...
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Automated shutdown for both PC and Mac...?

Hi All, Was wondering whether anyone has both a Mac and a PC connected to a UPS and able to automatically have them shutdown using either APC or natively via the OS. I believe the Mac has built in soft...
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Batteries

Is an RBC110 the same as an RBC2?
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Replaced the batteries

I just replaced the batteries in my XS800. Now when I plug it in online light blinks, then on battery light comes on with online light still blinking. Eventually it starts going back and forth between ...
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