[58650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu May 29 15:20:49 2003
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:17:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>,
Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030529144110.J31299@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Gerald wrote:
> 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.
Anyone had experience with Belkin UPSes? Theyre much cheaper than APC,
and seem to have a longer runtime. I wonder about the long term
reliability though. Data points would be helpful.
-Dan
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