I had 3 identical UPS (by Best) that failed withing 6 months of each
other.
I had these for about 4-5 years, so they last about as long as
my also lead-acid car batteries.
Over two months, as those UPS failed, I saw the destruction of
several attached computer devices:
1. On the first UPS, a $300 DSL router was destroyed,
and 2 webcams were destroyed.
2. On the second UPS in another room,
a $1200 postscript networked inkjet printer was destroyed.
I gather that as UPS batteries fail, the batteries can even switch their
polarity.
I concluded that an UPS will save electrical equipment in the short term,
but if you don't change your UPS batteries every 4-5 years,
then YOUR UPS ITSELF WILL DESTROY ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE LONG TERM.
I ordered a new pair of batteries from my UPS manufacturer,
then noticed that they used a new brand of batteries by Panasonic (same
size), so I became willing to use compatable batteries in my UPS.
My second and third set of UPS batteries I got for about $15 each at
http://www.gotbatteries.com/cross_ref/slabattery/SLACross.htm
which has a cross reference for batteries
(look at the label on the battery in your case).
You might also be able to look up your UPS battery in their table
http://www.gotbatteries.com/products/upsbackups/UPSModel.htm
but actually looking at your battery is more assuring.
You can also see a cross reference of batteries at
http://www.batteriesplus.com/crossups.html
The following Finnish website rather thoroughly covers "Electrical
Wiring Surge Protection",
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/surge
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:31:23PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote:
>
> For the past few months, my UPS has 'blinked out' on me. The rest of
> the power in the house was fine, but the items plugged into the UPS have
> tripped, causing the usual confusion and 20+ minute boot up sequence (12
> partitions, 90+ Gigs of hda/b including manually running fsck on my /var
> partition).
>
> Can anyone help me figure out whether to buy a new UPS or not? This
> problem is fairly recent as I have had the UPS for about 3 years.
>
> Also, my XFree86 (ver. 4.2.1) acts strange after these 'episodes'.
> When I 'startx' after the above sequence, the computer locks up--causing
> another manual hardboot and the above (lather, rinse, repeat). This
> includes re-running xf86config, restoring previous config files, etc.
>
> The only way it *does* work is if I let the machine sit 24+ hours.
> Then everything is peachy.
>
> What is going on? And why do I have to *always* fix /var manually?
>
> --running Woody 3.0 (not the latest...slow connection and all).
>
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