dandragonrage
[H]F Junkie
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So I'm very frustrated right now. I haven't had power since Sunday, might not have it until the weekend, can't find a generator in stores, and my goddamn APC SUA2200XL (which is supposed to be a good unit) refuses to believe that the car batteries (one deep cycle and one regular car battery that can die for all I care; I just need some friggin' power in my house) have charge in them. I charged them with my awesome Ctek charger at work and I run a 140w inverter on one just fine but the UPS will run for like two minutes. It discharges less than half overnight running a light, clock, phone charger, PSP charger. Neither of these batteries are lacking capacity. Connected to the UPS with it on, they measure about 28.3v. The dead (ran out in a friggin hour on a ~10% load... WTF) stock UPS batteries with NO load measure 26v, and would probably measure a good bit lower with power. There is NO REASON for this UPS to think that the car batteries are dead here. They have a significantly higher voltage than the dead UPS batteries.
Battery calibration is NOT an option as I do NOT have a way to charge the batteries back up, and since one is not a deep cycle battery, it won't like to be discharged all the way, anyway.
Nothing that uses a computer is an option here as I do not have power. If this can't be done from the UPS itself without a computer, this will be the last APC product I will ever buy or recommend. Grr. I've got a Liebert GXT2-1500 that I was going to sell in favor of the APC but at this rate, maybe the APC gets given away and I use the Liebert. Just too bad I don't have 4 car batteries for it. I trust that it would work.
Battery calibration is NOT an option as I do NOT have a way to charge the batteries back up, and since one is not a deep cycle battery, it won't like to be discharged all the way, anyway.
Nothing that uses a computer is an option here as I do not have power. If this can't be done from the UPS itself without a computer, this will be the last APC product I will ever buy or recommend. Grr. I've got a Liebert GXT2-1500 that I was going to sell in favor of the APC but at this rate, maybe the APC gets given away and I use the Liebert. Just too bad I don't have 4 car batteries for it. I trust that it would work.
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