I've been really impressed with Alpha's support. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Sterling Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, I manually turned on the inverter and left the input breaker > tripped/off and it ran on battery for about 2 hours until I went and > flipped the input breaker switch back on. > > It did have an Overload event just prior to the breaker trip, which makes > some sense I guess. > > Not sure there was an actual overload or not, but maybe that's the case. > > I have everything with two power supplies split between the UPS on one and > normal power on the other. > > I don't have any devices with problems or reboots on Normal power during > this so called overload event from the UPS. > > So Chuck may be right, the UPS might just be breaking slowly. > > I'll give Alpha a call and see what they say. > > This particular unit is out of warranty, but I have others that are new. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Skorup > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 1:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Alpha UPS AC Input Breaker Open > > I have no experience with Alpha stuff, but, stupid question... are you > sure the batteries are good? > > On 6/13/2017 12:00 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > Sounds like an internal inverter component is intermittently failing. > > Most likely an aluminum electrolytic capacitor. > > It will probably get more frequent until it totally dies. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Sterling Jacobson > > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 10:56 AM > > To: '[email protected]' > > Subject: [AFMUG] Alpha UPS AC Input Breaker Open > > > > I've never seen this before on my UPS, but the AC Input breaker keeps > > tripping open on my Alpha about once a day. > > > > Nothing else in the cabinet seems to be affected. > > > > No other equipment seems to report any problems with the AC. > > > > I'm not a guru on these things, what would this indicate? > > > > Also, when it does this it shuts off power to the AC output on the UPS > > instead of going on inverter. > >
