We had a site that always said wiring fault on an APC back when I worked for another company. That site had reversed polarity on the outlet in the breaker. Had another APC that failed and always reported that. We swapped that one and it fixed it.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:13 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm < [email protected]> wrote: > good luck. APC has a little guide for troubleshooting them, but never much > detail. we have a couple sites that always have it, never had any impact. I > suspect its overloaded ground. Maybe the smart meter shunts voltage to > ground for some safety verification or something like that, or more likely > to identify utility theft since all those smart meters are about is profit > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a UPS that I recently installed pulling a 'Site Wiring Fault' for >> 20 seconds a few times a day, at the exact same time daily. There are no >> other local electrical device at the location that I can find turning on or >> off at the same time, or that would have this kind of regularity. >> >> There is a smart meter at the location, could the smart meter be doing >> some polling that would cause this? I have another Identical UPS off the >> same utility HV line, but different transformer and meter, and it does not >> have any errors. >> >> Has anyone seen these before and been able to track down a cause? On the >> APC forums, one reply was to simply disable the alert, saying otherwise >> you'll descend down a never ending rabbit hole of diagnosing and tweaking >> your electrical plant. >> >> Nate >> > > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >
