RE: [Sightly OT] - UPS Question...

["Marchino Sisi" <lists.marchino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have a cable connected to the comm port on the UPS? I connected the
wrong cable to our UPS and it gave bizarre indicator lights, even when we
replaced the batteries!

Marchino

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Phil Harris
Sent: 16 May 2005 10:27
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [Sightly OT] - UPS Question...


Anyone here got an APC2200 UPS? (Not XL or RM)

Just replaced the batteries in mine on Friday (after the original
batteries failed and the UPS was mothballed for a few years) and this
morning I see that the "battery capacity" display (the column of
LEDs to
the right of the control panel) is flashing.

I don't think I have excessive load on the UPS (only one LED lit on the
"load" display on the left of the control panel) but I don't have
a
manual for the 2200 anywhere that I can find to have a look at what that
display flashing means (however I *THINK* it means "your batteries are
buggered").

Does anyone know whether you need to tell the UPS that it has had new
batteries fitted or should it be able to work that out for itself?

At the moment I don't have it hooked up to any monitoring software (I
only have windows software and my server has "gone linux") so at
the
moment I'm flying a bit blind.

Cheers

Phil







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