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UPSes are a PITA. I have frequent enough outages that I use them on all of my desktops, and they need a new battery every couple years, and now I'm reaching the
by toast0 1y ago
UPSes are a PITA. I have frequent enough outages that I use them on all of my desktops, and they need a new battery every couple years, and now I'm reaching the point where the whole thing needs replacement.
When they fail, they turn short dips, which a power supply might have been able to ride through into an instant failure, and they make terrible beeping at the same time. At least the models I have do their test with the protected load, so if you test regularly, it fails by having an unscheduled shutdown, so that's not great either. And there's not many vendors and my vendor is starting to push dumb cloud shit. Ugh.
- dylan604 1y ago[flagged]
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- wpollock 1y agoSounds like you have some APS model. I had those issues, and switched to Cyberpower. The alarm can be muted and the battery lasts for many years. A UPS is a must for me. When I lived in the midwest, a lightening strike near me fried all my equipment, including the phones. I now live in Florida and summer outages and dips (brownouts) are frequent.
- toast0 1y agoI've got Cyberpowers actually. The alarm can be muted, but it doesn't stay muted. Especially when the battery (or ups circuitry) is worn out so a power dip turns into infinite beeping. But also if the computer is turned off.
- 20after4 1y agoMany years ago I had the same thing happen - actually came in the phone line, fried my modem and everything connected to the motherboard. More recently I had lightning strike a security camera - took out everything connected to the same network switch, plus everything connected to the two network switches one hop away. Also lit up my office with a shower of sparks. Lightning is no joke.