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Disabling the poweroutage beeping for a Back-UPS Pro model #BPG650S

I have an APC Back-UPS Pro model #BPG650S. I need to find out how to turn off the audible alarm beeps that the unit makes when power goes out. Is there any way to do this? And if so how?????? As far as...
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Back-UPS ES 700 and OS X software controll issues

I have the Back-UPS ES 700 A MacPro computer(intel) running OS X I have downloaded the latest PowerChute driver for OS X. Now, my issues: I try to configure my UPS to shut down the computer after it ha...
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Help! I Did something stupid

I recently bought an APC BE350R. I got everything plugged in, and the PowerChute software installed, and all appeared to be well. Then I accidentally hit the power button (DOH!) on the UPS, which cut t...
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BE550R Power Requirements

Purchased a new BE550R for my home. Specs say input voltage 120 volt 12 amps. Is this 12 amps only when the battery is low and charging? Does this need to be plugged into a dedicated outlet, which I do...
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Problem with BP500UC rev B5 firmware ? ? ?

We've been using the BP500UC for quite some time now with good results. It seems that some time in the last 6 months or so the USB firmware changed from rev B4 to rev B5, and now we're having problems....
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APC XS 1000

Having just arrived at this company, one of my first tasks was to get their APC XS 1000 up and running again after it sat dormant with a bad battery. I ordered a new RBC-32 battery, installed it and p...
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Square wave/sine wave output

My UPS: Back-UPS XS 1500 (865w) My Computer: Fairly high end gaming system Question#1: Is the output of this ups to my computer during normal operation a square wave or true sine wave? Question#2: What...
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Nightmare UPC's clicking from A/C to Battery every few seconds for per...

Howdy, I have 3 APC units - XS-1000, XS1500, Backup Pro 500 , units all batteries and sofware say a-ok - but Blockout's seem to be in the 100's , my Tripp units ith Digital voltage readout seem to be m...
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Question about UPS software control

I'm planning to get an APC UPS so there's a question: I want to write a program to monitor the power status of the computer, it has to determine whether there's an AC power connected and the time left ...
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Force AVR Threshold

Hi Everyone, I just bought a BX1300LCD (Smart UPS). In the PowerChute software, the configurable range of voltage thresholds for AVR is somewhere like 88 (min.) and 139 (max.). The 88 minimum threshold...
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Back-UPS BX900R-CN... always charging...

So I finally bought my first APC UPS a couple weeks ago and sure enough with my luck, things are not looking too good. As it says in the title, it's a BX900R-CN, XS series --- and speaking of which, wh...
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