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BN-1500 drops power for 1-2 seconds when AC restored?

I'm just now doing some testing of AC power fail, and my BN-1500 does a fine shutdown, including shutting down a Win 10 workstation on a 1 minute trigger. After 2-3 minutes of being off, backup powe...
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BackUPS-1350 Electrical Smell when on battery

I have 2 Back-UPS 1350 UPSs, One on a network rack in my basement and another under my desk to run my desktop PC. During a power failure earlier this year, the UPS on my network rack caught fire, Displ...
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Specifically Smart-UPS 1000 and battery replacement

I replaced the battery on 6/14/2022. It works fine, but it tells me it's time to change the battery (L.01 code). When I checked my dashboard (smartconnect.apc.com), it told me the same thing. So, I bou...
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Back-UPS ES 700 strange alarm behaviour

Device: Back UPS ES 700connected device: just one router, nothing more. for testing purposes: a lamp When I pull the plug for test purposes, the ES 700 makes a very annoying high pitched terribly loud ...
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Trying to choose an APC UPS - Have some questions

I have spent forever researching APC UPS's, and I have it narrowed down to 3 different modelsSUA1500RM2U - Older 1500VA 2u Rackmount Smart UPSSMT1500RM2U - Newer of the aboveSMT1000RM2U - 1000VA of the...
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SMX3000+ext. Battery: Which battery is defective?

Hi, we are using Smart-UPS X 3000 SMX3000RMHV2U plus 2x SMX120RMBP2U.It uses 1x RBC117 and 4x RBC118. If a battery fails, how do we find out which of these batteries failed? Thanks a lot,pompfe
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Small Business Rack UPS Suggestions?

Anyone have recommendations for lower-cost rack mounted UPS solutions $500 or less? I have 5 servers (80w/each) and a few low power devices (switches, etc) in the rack at the moment. I have APC UPS con...
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Just tested my new APC BACK-UPS ES 850VA - BE850G2-UK - three queries

I live in the UK and the power quality in my house has never been the best. For example when using an electric shower, my bedroom light sometimes dims a little bit, but its very subtle.To start, I:1. R...
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APC 2200VA Smart UPS with SmartConnect, SMT2200C management/autoshutdo...

On extended power outages, there is no external internet connection and the server will corrupt files if not shutdown before UPS runs out of battery power. My server is Ubuntu 20.04 Linux. Given the p...
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Smart UPS turning off randomly with blinking LEDs

Hi. Sometimes UPS turns off randomly while on battery power and LEDs on the left side of buttons start blinking. I have to turn it on again by pressing the test button. Is it related to batteries or fa...
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General question about charging battery

To just charge the battery in a UPS, does the UPS need to be powered on?Or is it enough to just have the plug into the wall to just charge the battery? Thanks
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