[geeks] APC UPS question

[Michael Kaegler]

Battery Charge LED blink means "can't sustain current load for more 
than x minutes" where X is, by default, 2.
Sounds like the UPS is dead...if it were the battery, the replace 
batt light should be lit.
-porkchop

At 10:36 AM -0500 10/20/05, Bill Bradford wrote:
>My two-year-old refurbished SU1000NET died today.  (*taps*)
>
>Came home this afternoon to find all the computers rebooted, and the
>"Battery Charge" LED column blinking.  Load LED column is at one or
>two LEDs (as normal), "Replace Battery" LED is *not* lit.  At first I
>thought it took the iMac with it, but it turns out it just confused
>the heck out of the PMU.
>
>However, the UPS will not (apparently) charge, and will not hold anything
>on battery when mains power is gone.
>
>ANy ideas?  Turns out I'm about a half-month still in the 2-year
>warranty from Power Precision Partners (think3p.com, in Dallas) and
>have emailed them.. Are my batteries shot, or is the unit itself
>toast?
>
>Went to CompUSA and picked up a Conext-brand 950KVA/540W UPS
>temporarily, then got home and found out that my old UPS was a
>1KVA/950W.  So, the new UPS can hold up all the network equipment and
>Amy's PC, but not my Mac as well.  I've put a 350W APC UPS on the iMac
>temporarily...
>
>BTW, "Conext" brand (as seen at CompUSA) is actually made by APC; I
>guess its their "cheaper" consumer label.  The shelf price labels said
>"APC CONEXT", and the battery in this thing has a huge APC logo
>sticker on both sides.
>
>http://www.conextproducts.com/ups/product.cfm?sku=CNB950
>
>Bill
>
>--
>Bill Bradford
>Houston, Texas
>_______________________________________________
>GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks


-- 
  Michael "Porkchop" Kaegler, Network Analyst, 845 575 3061
  Marist College,  3399 North Road,  Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Last week a cop stopped me in my car.  He asked me if I had
a police record. I said, no, but I have the new DEVO album.