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Question About 2 Notebook Surge Protectors

Hello, I am looking to buy surge protector for traveling and 2 products caught my eye. Here are their models: - PNOTEPROC6 - PNOTEPRO3 (this one is mentioned to be discontinued) While the latter is d...
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New Back-Ups Pro 1500 not detecting battery

I just received my brand new Back-ups pro 1500 from Amazon, it has a quality assurance test taped on it from 7/2/16 so I know it worked before I pulled out the battery, flipped it as instructed, but po...
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APC XS 1500 power on switches to battery disconnects charging, power o...

When I power on my UPS the green online flashes, then switches to battery only and cuts of charging. When I shut down the unit it then again charges the batteries. I have tried the lower transfer sen...
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overload spike on Back-UPS XS 1500G

I tried to RTFM and could not find the information. What I get is the following in Powerchute. A pop up window comes up with the following message. "Your battery backup is overloaded. This means th...
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APC Line-R 1200

I have a Tv, home theater/DVD player and sky TV unite plugged into it. Lately It will not start. I have to unplug plug all, start and then plug them in. An idea on the fault. Russ
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UPS shuts down itself

Hi all, I've searched for someone with my same problem but I didn't find nothing. I have an APC Back-UPS BX950UI 950 VA with only one iMac connected. I often leave the iMac in standby, because is conv...
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BR550G-AR - Continuos beep with AC on and does't start up

Hi! So, the other day my unit beeped and when i checked it was really hot and low battery (we didn't have any power outage!). I shutted down it using the power button to let it cold for like 1 hour, wh...
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APC Back UPS PRO USV 1200VA - BR1200GI with power chute personal ups ...

hey we got the above ups with the software power chute personal edition 3.02 and a w7 pc. In the power chute software the settings are that the pc should shutdown after 1min.Hibernation is disabled cau...
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Cancel Shutdown if Power Restored?

We have a SmartUPS 1500 plus a backup generator. The backup generator, if working properly, should take about 10 seconds to restore power. The issue we have is that Power Chute initiates the server s...
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Back UPS ES 700 - immediately hibernate/shutdown instead of 1min timer

Hi, maybe my wish is uncommon, but i want my UPS sending hibernate mode to win10 PC immediately (1min waiting time is far too long). In Personal edition i can only define 1min waiting time as minimum, ...
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APC Back UPS Pro 1000 with error F07

Hi guys, I have a APC Back UPS Pro 1000 and since 2 weeks it shows error F07 and bips some times. The room where it is installed is very cool. What can I do?
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