On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >Well, my SmartUPS XL is on production for more than one year so far. The > >AVR works wonderfully (my main is a bit high, at ~125V so the AVR is > >*always* on), too. It sustains the current load I placed on it for > 1h, > >and plays by the book, shutting the load down cleanly and powering it up > >cleanly later. > > Did you buy a replacement battery when you bought the unit?
No, I have a spare UPS of another manufacturer if this one fails. At the time it was bought, APC products were just starting to show up in Brazil at an acceptable price (they were waaay too expensive before) so another unit from another manufacturer was considered a better choice. Nowadays maybe I would consider buying a spare battery set if I buy a new APC, but the spare batteries would degrade while in storage anyway... and replacing batteries every few months to cycle them is not really an option I like. A spare unit is easier to take care of. In my experience with other small UPS (< 10kVA) manufacturers, the batteries often fail, but so does the control circuirty... and nearly as often (which is worrisome, and the reason why I am trying APC instead of staying with these guys). Strange as it may be, I have never had an inverter bridge failure. The UPS is undergoing a full cycle now (AKA I pulled the main power), so that I can time the power-offline uptime of the unit again. I will report back if it is significantly less than what it used to manage when new. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
