Re: What UPS to buy

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:59:28 -0600
> Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:44:30 -0500
> > > Kevin Coyner <kevin@rustybear.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Some of APC's UPS units allow you to set the voltage sensitivity
> > > > via dip switches, some of the units allow you to set it via
> > > > software, and some don't let you adjust the sensitivity.  So if
> > > > you plan to back up your battery powered UPS with an external
> > > > generator, make sure to get a UPS with an adjustment for voltage
> > > > sensitivity.
> > > About two years ago, we had trouble at work due to an APC UPS that
> > > would kick in every night. As we needed the computer at 5:00 AM we
> > > had to connect the computer directly. When my boss wanted to throw
> > > away the "faulty" UPS I took it home. After a Google search I found
> > > the User's Manual describing the above mentioned dip-switches.
> > >
> > > Needless to say I now have a pretty good working UPS, because of the
> > > power fluctuations in my country and the stupidity of our IT-Service
> > > (who couldn't figure out how to solve the problem).
> > Still the same battery?
>
> Yup. But I'm not sure how old it is. I use it mostly for (very short)
> power fluctuations because the wiring in my apartment block is *very*
> bad and the refrigerator might trigger a reboot.

My *apcaccess* has:
...
MANDATE  : 2000-07-31
SERIALNO : NB18008004272
BATTDATE : 2000-07-31
...

and *apctest* has the same date.

But I have used the apctest function to reset the sensitivity of the 
Back-UPS LS 500 to 'low' (with apcupsd 3.13.2 (22 February 2006)) and 
*before* that I had:

...
MANDATE : 2005-08-23
SERIALNO : 3B0533X05324
BATTDATE : 2005-08-23
...

which should be right, because I bought it in November 2005.

So you should be able to see the battery date with apcaccess, unless it 
got clobbered.

Hugo