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Is it impossible to accurately measure the health of a Lead-Acid UPS?

In a blog post from Schneider Electric (parent company of APC), they say that lead-acid UPS batteries "rely on chemistry that makes it hard to accurately predict when they’re going to fail" but "Li-ion...
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Wiring Batteries

Do I wire the batteries in series or parallel?
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BX-1400va ups self shut off issue

Hi, We have this BX-1400 ups and we want to shut off the ups completely after MAINS off. The ups setting is hibernating our PC but we want after that to completely shut off it self even if it has a fe...
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Back-UPS CS 650 shutdown grace period

Hello. I have an issue with BK650EI extensively discussed in http://forums.apc.com/spaces/7/ups-management-devices-powerchute-software/forums/general/5680/powerchute-personal-and-voltage-readout/1, so ...
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BR1500MS -Sine Wave 900w

Hi, I've recently bought this unit and noticed that during operation it constantly creates intermittent squealing sound 2-3 mins after powering on in either loaded or non-loaded state. It seems to me ...
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Issues with running two UPS?

Imagine I have two Backups pro connected to two wall sockets. No daisy chain, just two independent UPS. I connect one server to each one of them and they communicate with a cat5 cable. Does this poses...
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PowerChute Personal Question

I have a dual boot system both with Win7 Ultimate. APC Back-UPS Pro BR 1000 When installing PowerChute Personal Edition 3.02 everything goes fine. Running the program GUI I see that it doesn't have th...
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Back-UPS 700 not turning off

Hello everyone. I have this product since a couple years at most, never had problems until this night. I used my PC all day without troubles but when i turned both the pc and the unit off i noticed th...
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Shutdown % values

Hello there, new to APC and UPS generally, and have recently bought a 1400va BX1400U unit which appeas to work well, as mine is only powering a basic pc/router and 3 12v IP cams, I do get a good runtim...
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Back-UPS BE700G-GR Sensitivity & Power Capacity Questions

Hello, I have this model stated in the title - Back-UPS BE700G-GR - and I'd like to know two things: - On the product overview it's mentioned that it has adjustable voltage sensitivity, but in the Manu...
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Brand New APC BR1500GI sounds like a hairdryer when on mains!!!

Just got APC BR1500GI from Amazon and when on mains power it sounds like a hairdryer every 5-10 minutes for 45 seconds or so when loaded up to ~300W. Then it goes quiet for few minutes before the fan k...
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