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And I'll never buy another APC UPS. Last year mine was telling me the battery was dead. I wasn't in a hurry to replace this one because it wasn't powering anyth
by ziml77 6y ago
And I'll never buy another APC UPS. Last year mine was telling me the battery was dead. I wasn't in a hurry to replace this one because it wasn't powering anything too important at the time, but it was still useful to leave there as an overpriced power strip until I could get around to replacing the battery, so that's what I did. A few weeks passed with the dead battery in there, but no new alerts. I was cleaning under my desk and ended up touching the UPS when I realized it was uncomfortably hot. I very quickly turned it off and unplugged it. I wasn't sure what the safest thing to do was at that point, but I figured I should get the battery disconnected ASAP. It was difficult to remove, and after I got it out it was easy to see why. The battery casing had actually deformed.
That scared me of of APC. The unit should have shut down before letting itself get that hot.
- ppf 6y ago>The unit should have shut down before letting itself get that hot. Wny? It already warned you something was wrong, for weeks. There's a reason you don't ignore problems with battery-powered equipment. >I realized it was uncomfortably hot. That barely registers on the electronics hardware scale of "what is too hot". When you yank your hand away, shake it, and go "ooof, that's hot", that's too hot ;)
- heavenlyblue 6y agoThere is a difference between “dead battery” and “my battery is overheating itself”
- kayfox 6y agoWith SLA batteries the venn diagram of those two things has a lot of overlap.