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<div>Several years ago, when I was being kept awake at night by incessantly beeping/screeching APC Back-UPS XS-800 units (two of them) just because their batteries were near end-of-life (as if I have to be told every 5 minutes 24/7!!!), I did some Internet research on the matter. The APC programming options on these units didn't allow override of this beeping/screeching, but cutting the speaker/squeaker wires sure works!</div>
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<div>The primary recommendation at that time for more sensibly programmed (and overrideable) UPS's at the low price-point was CyberPower. I have since then seen CyberPower units attractively priced at <a href="http://tigerdirect.ca">tigerdirect.ca</a> many times.</div>
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<div>In addition to my two APC Back-UPS XS-800 (800 VA / 540 watt) units (battery model # RBC32), I also have an APC Back-UPS XS-1300 (1300 VA / 780 watt) unit (battery model # RBC109), all with dead batteries. The APC Back-UPS XS-1300 has a nice reddish (LCD/LED?) little rectangular text/graphical screen, and I think the beeping/screeching can be overridden.</div>
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<div>Anyone want to buy any or all of these 3 units? They are in mint condition and were working properly before the batteries died.</div>
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<div>Hartmut Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2013 15:55, Trevor Cordes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor@tecnopolis.ca" target="_blank">trevor@tecnopolis.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">On 2013-01-30 Dan Keizer wrote:<br>> Funny timing ... I bought two APC 750 units just over a year ago and<br>
> use them to keep my servers running in the rack.<br>><br>> A week or so ago, one of them started to complain (beeping wildly in<br>> the night) and flashing it's lights etc ...<br><br>As much as I love APC, I must say their non-Smart lines are generally<br>
complete crap now. They live for 2-6 years then fail in strange,<br>different, and noisy ways, creating support nightmares, even after new<br>batteries are put in.<br><br>The Smart ones live a lot longer but can still do incredibly wonky<br>
things if the batteries are dying/dead. You will sometimes not get any<br>warning via the software or the UPS even though the batteries are<br>gone. In some cases I open up the UPS to find the batteries bulging to<br>insane widths. Moral of the story is set yourself reminders at 3-4<br>
years to start thinking about pro-active battery replacement and/or load<br>testing (apctest in apcupsd in linux is good for this).<br><br>I still haven't found a better UPS brand, so I stick mostly with APC<br>Smart.<br>
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