Recently I posted a thread about leaking batteries in my Smart-UPS 1250 in the Off-Topic forum, but I thought it might be better to follow up here.
There ended up being 5 or 6 bad caps in the unit, all small Teapo 22uf caps. Not sure if it was part of the reason for the erratic behavior or not, but it seems to be working fine now.
The old batteries that leaked everywhere were cheap Zeus batteries from China. When they were new,I got about 18 minutes of run time during testing.
The new batteries came from a place in Texas, that goes by SLABattery on Ebay. I got about 29 minutes of run time with those.
Time will tell if the issue is solved I guess. The unit does seem a bit warm after a few days, but not like it was before. It also doesn't seem to make the hissing noise while idle that it used to.
Now if I could just use the serial cable with Windows 7 to have the monitoring like i did in XP, it would be awesome. But I guess that's what I get for using a UPS from 1993
There ended up being 5 or 6 bad caps in the unit, all small Teapo 22uf caps. Not sure if it was part of the reason for the erratic behavior or not, but it seems to be working fine now.
The old batteries that leaked everywhere were cheap Zeus batteries from China. When they were new,I got about 18 minutes of run time during testing.
The new batteries came from a place in Texas, that goes by SLABattery on Ebay. I got about 29 minutes of run time with those.
Time will tell if the issue is solved I guess. The unit does seem a bit warm after a few days, but not like it was before. It also doesn't seem to make the hissing noise while idle that it used to.
Now if I could just use the serial cable with Windows 7 to have the monitoring like i did in XP, it would be awesome. But I guess that's what I get for using a UPS from 1993
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