On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:48:18 -0600 Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote:
> As others have said, dealing with batteries is a pain, and they fail > frequently. I've also been frustrated to find that when a battery > fails, sometimes this causes the UPS to shut down power to the > connected equipment. I have not had any APC UPS shut down when its batteries failed. As for battery failure, yes, it happens. Monitoring the battery (with the aid of good software such as apcupsd) will at least give you a warning. I run a self test from time to time, more often as the batteries age. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
