[58648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu May 29 15:11:59 2003
To: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>,
Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:11:22 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <20030529144110.J31299@kod.inch.com>, Gerald writes:
>
>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.
>
There was a recent recall of some of their home/SOHO UPSs -- battery
overheating, with risk of fire.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
