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November 20, 2006
Time for a new UPS
As we head into winter, the "lots of trees, occasional wind storms, and above-ground power infrastructure" is biting us again. The power was out a couple times in the last few weeks for a few hours each incident.
It was enough that it convinced me to see about getting my old APC BackUPS 500 actually monitored. One new battery ($30) and a bit of time later, nut is happily watching the UPS, and reporting our occasional power hiccups.
I discovered yesterday, however, that the UPS isn't actually indicating when it's entering low battery - so the machine happily runs along on battery 'till the UPS kicks it.
That's clearly silly. Time to buy a new UPS and re-purpose this one to something that isn't trying to use it for intelligent shutdown.
Posted by dberger at November 20, 2006 6:20 AM