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BX1500G Beeps Twice Every Two Seconds?

My BX1500G beeps twice every two seconds and an empty battery symbol flashes in-sync with the beeps. I removed the batteries, waited 30 minutes and reinstalled the batteries. This made no difference....
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Question of intended usage for APC Smart UPS XL 1000 KVA w/ battery pa...

Greetings! Client wants to use this model at a remote site to power a 300 VA I.T. server, the site is under generator power during the day while manned, and at night the site is unmanned and the genera...
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BR1500ms Load Sensitivity Not Adjusting?

Brand new out of the box BR1500MS protecting one Windows desktop PC, two monitors, cable modem and router in a home office setting. The UPS display shows a Load Sensitivity setting of LOW (1 out of 5 ...
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Back-UPS BX1100C 1000VA: Fan turns on after switching off UPS and remo...

Hi, I purchased APC BX1100C 1000VA UPS 2 days back. It is working fine. However when I shutdown my computer, switch off the UPS using the On/Off switch on the UPS and then disconnect the UPS cable from...
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BK650M2-CH 使用apcupsd故障原因,不正常的必看

BK650M2-CH是特供中国的产品,所以我用中文发帖,好让同样的问题的用户看到。 BK650M2-CH是BK650-CH的更新版本,乘着某东618活动终于忍不住入了个,然而连接好安装好了之后非常崩溃。使用的linux作为主机,那么安装apcupsd肯定是必然的,版本当然是最新版本的3.14.14-2。 https://community.se.com/t5/APC-UPS-for-Home-a...
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CS500 disconnect surge load, drops 2 out of 3 loads

I have here a CS500. Top port has a power strip with 2 external USB hard disks, the other 2 one QNAP NAS each. A 24-port ethernet switch was connected to the bottom (surge protection only) port. When I...
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APC BACK-UPS 1400VA, 230V. RJ45 ports

Hi guys, I struggle to determine if this UPS can be connected to the LAN. I've tried the 2 RJ45 ports and my switch doesn't show any led. My aim was to use PowerChute Network to stop my devices once ba...
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Hot Easy UPS BV 1000

Hi, I just recently bought an Easy UPS BV 1000 but I notice that it gets hot at the top where the grids are placed I suppose that for this very reason, but I also notice that it gets hot whitout any lo...
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BE600M1 - Light at the side red ??

So I just got the Back up battery that I ordered from Amazon of this link -https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01FWAZEIU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 When I plug it into the wall ...
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BE600M1 with Business PowerChute

I have a media server at home and it is running Windows Server 2016. I bought a a BE660M1 to help it weather power outages. I can't install the personal version of PowerChute on the server, because it ...
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No Internetconnection for PowerChute 3.1 via Parallels

I have a Macbook with Parallels 15.1.4 and Win 10 All my windows programs there have good internet connection. Only PowerChute 3.1 says TOhEvNd2YIDkQKDdWhY5fA%3D%3D&Rest-Api-Key=d3Bhc3F1aWw6NjM3MzU...
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