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Author:  jaylach [ Thu May 25, 2023 8:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Thought I blew my main system
Had a momentary power loss yesterday and it would not power up after. Finally it dawned on me that it should not have died as it is on a UPS. I looked at the UPS's display and it was dead. When I changed power source the system booted right up. After a while the UPS's display came back up but I didn't bother reconnecting to it. I figure that the battery probably went south. Don't know if I'll replace the battery or just get a new UPS.
Author:  Doddie [ Thu May 25, 2023 8:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
Oh :o
I do hope i've not started a power issue trend! :lol:
Author:  jaylach [ Thu May 25, 2023 8:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
Doddie wrote:
Oh :o
I do hope i've not started a power issue trend! :lol:

Nope. ;) The UPS is just old, I would guess 6-8 years. It is past due for a new battery or replacement.
Author:  bbarry [ Thu May 25, 2023 9:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
Jay, same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. My 7 year old CyberPower UPS failed to operate during a power failure. It also failed when I invoked a self-test. So I replaced the battery (an easy job even for me), and all is now working as it should.
Author:  Doddie [ Thu May 25, 2023 9:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
I don't have a UPS because power outages are fairly rare in the UK and our homes and businesses are wired differently than in the US, that said, in this day and age it does seem odd to me backup power supplies don't alert the owner when the battery is failing, or has failed.

I do however have a surge protector between the wall socket and my PC & peripherals, many decades ago when i was running Win3.1 the local power company was doing some work on a power cable in my street that resulted in a huge power spike being sent to every home in the local area... it cost them thousands in replacement home appliances... as you can imagine there was little understanding back then about the damage it could cause to a HDD, my PC survived the power surge but all the data on the HDD was toast and turned into what i can only describe as wing dings.
Author:  dvair [ Thu May 25, 2023 10:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
Just replaced some in my ancient Belkin UPS.
Author:  jaylach [ Thu May 25, 2023 10:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
I just noticed that the battery gauge on my UPS shows a full battery charge so something else may have blown. I'm not going to mess with, just replace.

@David: How do you like Belkin's? I've gone with Trip Lite.
Author:  dvair [ Fri May 26, 2023 7:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
I have had that one for years, it is powering a secondary system. I have Cyperpower on mine right now. Have had good luck with them. Have an old APC unit on my cable box and TV.
Author:  bbarry [ Fri May 26, 2023 8:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
Jay, even when my CyberPower UPS battery had to be replaced, the old battery still showed full charge for some reason. That fooled me for awhile, but I went ahead and replaced the battery and the UPS started working/protecting again.
Author:  sboots [ Fri May 26, 2023 10:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Thought I blew my main system
Over the years I've had a few UPS units fail in the way you described -- power failure where it shut down and the attached PC wouldn't run when powered back up even though the battery showed 100%. I used to replace the batteries, not I just get a new unit.
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