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![]() ![]() Critical components that could have a disastrous affect on operation if a UPS was not in the mix. UPS systems are designed to back up PC's, Servers, Workstations and Networking equipment. Please understand the reason for reiteration throughout this entire thread. And to respond to the person who asked if you'd wouldn't want to be notified of a power failure at night so your alarm would go off at the correct time, buy an alarm with a battery backup for $10. If you want to be notified of power failure turn them on, if not turn them off. Putting it under the battery cover would eliminate accidental changes since it isn't something you'd be changing on a daily basis. ![]() In the grand scheme of things an inexpensive switch would be a cost-effective solution during the manufacture of a product in this price range. The beeping is very annoying and in my application the UPS will run the things for several hours. I'm using my UPS as a backup to a power recliner/lift chair for a disabled person and to run a low wattage lamp if the power should fail. The last thing I wanted to do was power cycle the things connected to the UPS, which I ended up doing due it taking so long to change the settings and the UPS battery ran down to 0.Īll the talk of using the software to control the alarms would really be a mute point if there was a 50 cent switch installed to just turn the dang alarms on or off. A simple "don't shut down my pc, it is an independently powered laptop" option would be great. It took an hour because my PC got shut down 3 times before I could get it to change the settings. All I wanted to do was reset the settings, turn off the beeping, and go back to bed. It really works great except that kept shutting down my pc one night when it thought there was a power failure when I had the settings set to stringent (I had either noise or an overvoltage problem, the power was still on). I know it does not have such an option now. I just want the software to have the option to not shut down the PC that is connected to it. The cost of the AV centric models are about 10x to PC centric models, so this is almost perfect for me. I like that I can control and configure it with my PC. I bought it to keep power on my DVR and do not want the extra features of an AV UPS that cost tons of extra money. I certainly don't mind installing software on my PC to manage this UPS and didn't consider it advertising. It would be really nice to tell the UPS that the computer is being used only to manage the UPS and doesn't need to be shut down. Preventing hard power cycling of the DVR is why I bought this thing in the first place and it has hard cycled more than anything else in the house so far. In the meantime i had to power cycle the UPS and hence my DVR a couple of times to get it to stop beeping. I then hook up my laptop to try to "fix it", then it shuts down my laptop because the software assumes that the UPS is protecting the PC on which it is installed, so it takes me 3 reboots to finally get the PC to stay on long enough to change my sensitivity settings so the situation will not keep happening. I've got the software installed on my laptop and had some noise or some overvoltage thing going on at 2 AM one night cause the power is still on and nothing else in the house. Instead of $50 on a PC one, you should have spent $500 to $1500 to get an AV one so it doesn't beep.ĭon't be tricked into the trap of using the PC to try to "fix it" when it does start beeping in the middle of the night either. This was originally posted on APC forums on
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