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APC XS1000 on "Overload"

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RickyJ

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Hey guys, had an incident yesterday. I had everything powered down, as I was resoldering a vdimm wire to the pot on my Infinity, and dropping my new PC3200 VX into the board. When I hit the switch on the back of the power supply, the ups instantly flashed the "Overload" light and make lots of noise. I unplugged everything from the ups and hit the power button, still flashes the overload light and makes noise. I disconnected the battery and the unit works fine.

I checked my soldering and nothing splashed down onto the board. I did forget to remove my bios battery and unplug the power supply cables...my bad. There was no smoke or any nasty noises, and the computer is working just fine.

I'll take my ups to my parent's place this weekend and try using the battery from their XS1000, and try my battery in theirs.

On a related note, the wiring fault light has been on since I moved into this place almost 2 months ago.

So, any hope for this ups? Anything I can try? I've gone through the faq's on APC's site, and the solution doesn't match what happens with this unit.
 
Yes. Long day at work and I wasn't thinking about pulling the cable out. I was under the impression that flipping the switch was good enough. :(
 
If it comes to that, it'll be done. Winters in this small town don't come with reliable power, so I might just buy a new one and RMA this one so I'm not unprotected. Got these for pretty cheap.

Any other suggestions? Ice?
 
You probably just blew the circuit breaker in the back of it. Of course, I'm having the exact same problem with my Back-UPS RS right now, and the circuit breaker in back is in from what I can tell :(

I've been meaning to call APC tech support this week...
 
I checked the breaker first, and it doesn't appear to have been tripped. :(
 
My battery checked out alright in our other BX1000. The other battery didn't help in my borked BX1000. I checked the fuses inside, and they're both still good. No bulged components or burned traces that I could see. Everything looked/smelled fine, no dust anywhere.
 
time to dig up an old thread.... found this with google.
I lost two APC BX-1000 UPS's within two week of each other, the overload led is lit, but nothing is plugged in bx1000. both units were mfg 2/2003. one was lost in a storm when the power went out; the other was lost when i accidentally flicked the 400A main breakers when pulling wire for two new 20A dedicated plugs for my farm. i hope this is only a short coming of the BX1000 line. batteries were replaced two years ago and were fine, did try another battery from a good ups to be sure.

the good news is that i only have one more for this model, i should expect it to fail soon. I got three BX1500 and two BX1200; hope they keep ticking...
 
Forgot all about this thread, haha. I grabbed an electrical outlet tester and tested the outlet that the UPS was plugged into, said there's no ground. I pulled the outlet cover off the wall and saw that the wiring was only 2-conductor, no ground wire. Apparently when my landlady's electrician ex-husband (wasn't at the time) rewired the whole house, he only did the new half of the house, and put new 3-prong outlets on old 2-conductor wire in the old part of the house where I was. Looked into the APC manual, and it says that when there's no ground lead hooked up, the UPS tries to make its own imaginary ground reference, which voids the warranty. Guess it took barely anything to kill it at that point.
 
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