Re: Advice Needed on APC Uninterruptable Power Supplies

Two things off the cuff-

1) Have you waited a while before trying to wake them up? I have had a
case where I had to let it sit there for a while plugged in before it
would respond. Not sure this pertains to your models or not, but it may
be that they need some time powered to become responsive.

2) APC has a trade in program, may be worth investigating, instead of
just new batteries. If you can't get anything from the ups at all, I
wouldn't buy new batts for it. IMHO/YMMV.

-Jay

Jon Forrest wrote:
> I have 4 different APC UPSs. They haven't been used in
> a long time, probably 3 years, so I wasn't expecting them
> to be ready to use. I plugged them in today hoping
> that I'd be able to use the APC agent software to
> get some idea of the state of the batteries.
>
> To my surprise, all 4 UPSs are acting totally dead,
> and don't respond to button pushes or queries from
> the monitoring software. Again, I knew the batteries
> would be dead but I expected the electronics inside,
> when hooked up to wall power, would be able to function.
>
> I was going to decide whether to replace the batteries
> but now I'm not sure the UPSs are working at all.
> Would you risk buying replacement batteries or would
> you just send them to Excess and Salvage?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Cordially,

-- 
Jay Bryon
Senior Network Engineer, IST-IS-NSO 
(Network artists formerly known as CNS)
U.C. Berkeley
jay_at_berkeley.edu
2-5636
[Unless stated explicitly otherwise, all opinions are my own and do not represent official policy of any part of IST, U.C. Berkeley or the U.C. Regents.]  
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