Previously, at 3:06 PM -0500 3/26/11, as Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote:
>I seem to get this fairly often, and the lights only dim perhaps one
>of three times. Another third of the time I hear a major appliance
>kick on just before the alarm, this can be a washing machine, or a
>refrigerator compressor, or an air conditioner. The final third of the
>time there is no outward sign, the alarm just goes off on it's own.
>
>It's a major hassle because resetting the alarm will kill the Mac,
>which makes zero sense to me since the whole idea of UPS is
>"uninterrupted power" so you'd think that you should be able to reset
>the alarm without interrupting the power, but that's not how it works,
>so I must then Shutdown and reboot.
>
>I've got two of these units, and both test out good for the batteries,
>so I'm assuming I've got some sort of voltage issue with my mains. My
>house is fairly new, and I've never had problems with electricity for
>any other uses other than these UPS alarms going off about once a week
>or so.
IINM, dimming lights are a sign of an "underwired" house. I'd contact an
electrician
or your power company (they might not charge you, even!)
p.
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