[Sussex] APC Smart-UPS 1000 Problems

[Ronan Chilvers]

Paul Graydon wrote:
> Sounds to me very much like a dead battery job.  We've faced similar
> problems at work, which only get thrown up by failures during a weekend
> test or when the power glitches and we discover a powered off server.
> The current principal where I work learnt that if we say the batteries
> need replacing we're not joking.  The phase the servers were on got
> tripped about 10 minutes before he was due to make an important
> presentation, using a ppt file we stupidly had only got stored on the
> servers (since then I've always made sure at least a day in advance to
> have an off-line copy of any presentation..)  Batteries we'd pretty much
> known were dead failed to keep the servers up.  The very next day some
> money suddenly appeared in our budget for replacement batteries..

Ah!  The wonders of learning by cruel experience!  Funny how people
suddenly get interested when things bite them in the bum, isn't it!!!

:-)

Going to give some replacement batteries a bit of a blast and see what
happens.

Cheers
--
Ronan

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