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As a person who has never bought a UPS, this behaviour of turning off power when the battery dies even though there is mains power is unintuitive, and I would h
by Ndymium 6y ago
As a person who has never bought a UPS, this behaviour of turning off power when the battery dies even though there is mains power is unintuitive, and I would have most likely hit the same issue. I see the post title as a PSA, in that if you happened to buy a standby UPS without knowing better, it might not be that useful if you very rarely have power interruptions but the battery keeps dying every couple of years.
- kop316 6y agoTrust me.....having infrequent power outages like that are very very annoying. Everything turns off and I have to spend a non-trivial amount of time bringing my network back up (first router, then NAS (encrypted to I need to hand jam in the key), then servers that depend on NAS (also encrypted)). What eventualy got me to get a UPS was during a storm, it happened twice within an hour! This isn't even talking about if I were away, now my servers are down and I have to do it when I get home. That UPS was well worth it to put a stop to that happening.