[58646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerald)
Thu May 29 14:44:03 2003
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:43:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0305291118520.6002-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> I've seen two previous APCs (both Matrixes) fry batteries... The
> batteries balloon up, and get really hot, and are too big to extract from
> the chassis.
I've also personally witnessed an APC do this. I'm not a fan of APC.
They sent us a replacement APC but I still prefer the rack mount Tripp
Lites we used at the last company I worked for.
Gerald
