UPS Batteries
December 17, 2010by Wm. Josiah Erikson (wjens)
We had four MGE Pulsar Evolution 3000’s and two free-standing tower units (one APC, one Tripp-Lite, both 3000VA), as well as a smaller BACK-UPS Pro 1000. One of the tower units stopped “booting” – I threw it out. The two bottom rackmount MGE units stopped getting us through power failures and were beeping at me to replace the batteries, so I ordered some. Much cheaper than a new UPS! Just today, the top UPS randomly power-cycled itself. I don’t really trust it and think it might actually be dead, but I will test it by putting the batteries from another unit in it and seeing if it works then. If it does, I’ll get it new batteries, too. For now, I’ve offloaded the machines that were plugged into it onto the bottom two UPSes that have brand-new batteries.
December 17th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Well, actually the top UPS appears to function just fine with new batteries, so I’ll get it some. Good. I’ll get the last one new ones too, while I’m at it.