So we had been having some power problems the last couple days, due to a substation glitch. I figured I would be fine since all my stuff is on separate UPS systems.
At 3:30am when they shut the power off for repairs, my desktop PC goes down right away, and the Smart-UPS 1250 is making some short beeps and clicking, trying to start itself back up on totally dead batteries.
Good thing the UPS on the server rack (same model) was still going strong, and I was able to shut that down with no issues.
On top of that, when I was trying to use my laptop to shut down my file server, the battery contacts were flaky, causing that to shut off randomly.
Oddly enough, I had rebuilt both UPS's around the same time, but with different batteries. I think one had Universal Batteries in it, and the other had Gruber batteries. I wonder which set died early. Or perhaps it was the UPS itself?
I'm pretty sure it's been less than 2 years since I replaced the batteries, but I guess I still should have done some periodic testing... Lesson learned
At 3:30am when they shut the power off for repairs, my desktop PC goes down right away, and the Smart-UPS 1250 is making some short beeps and clicking, trying to start itself back up on totally dead batteries.
Good thing the UPS on the server rack (same model) was still going strong, and I was able to shut that down with no issues.
On top of that, when I was trying to use my laptop to shut down my file server, the battery contacts were flaky, causing that to shut off randomly.
Oddly enough, I had rebuilt both UPS's around the same time, but with different batteries. I think one had Universal Batteries in it, and the other had Gruber batteries. I wonder which set died early. Or perhaps it was the UPS itself?
I'm pretty sure it's been less than 2 years since I replaced the batteries, but I guess I still should have done some periodic testing... Lesson learned
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