nganu ako ups pag mag brown out dali rakaayo mapalong?

[Tamblot]

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@whoopz, a UPS serving you for 2 years sound not bad at all. If you have taken good...no, better care of it, then maybe it could have served you for one more year.

It's battery may no longer be performing at its rated capacity.

Maybe you can try this. Drain the batteries. How? Plug a non-sensitive appliance (electric fan, let it spin to the max) and let the UPS run in battery mode until it dies. Drain it to death. Really dead!

Then, with nothing connected to it, charge the UPS continiously until the the battery is full. How to know it's full? your UPS manual knows that.

Others that i know do shock batteries to freshen it up by <I prefer not to mention it here >. But hey guys, WHEREVER YOU ARE. WHATEVER YOU DO. PLEASE, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.

<Banned word > a high capacity, sealed type battery, even when it's totally drained can still create a big bang. Fireworks! Sparks flying! Happy New Year!!!

It mainly depends on your battery type. Worst, not only that the terminals get damaged by doing that, your battery may explode. Again, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.

If the draining-charging doesn't work, how about bringing it to the shop where you bought it. Or the authorized service/repair center of your UPS. For sure they know what to do.

[spookey]

try checking the load efficiency. UPS or any other power supply device do not have 100% efficiency. otherwise, if they want to have what seem to be 100% efficient UPS then they will have to declare a lower wattage than the actual rating. example, usually a UPS with a 80% efficiency means that it may be rated 500 watts but the load should not be greater than 400 watts or your system freaks out and that is reality.

[whoopz]

yup, i didnt take care of the battery coz pag palit nako ani ups 2yrs ago, i really wasnt so addicted with pc hardware so wala rakaayo nako gi galam ang ups.. but anyway, ill try draining the battery.

and if all else fails, palit nalang judko ug new ups which is stronger and better pud nga brand.

[Tamblot]

give that last chance a try and maybe you could still make the most of what is left of your UPS. at least, when you buy a new one, you can let your old UPS do it work in lighter loads such as speaker systems, printer, etc.

good luck!!

[spookey]

you also consider 800 watts and above if your going to buy a new UPS...

[Tamblot]

i think commercially available UPS comes in 500VA, 650VA, 1000VA.

[AMD_infinium05]

mind if you put 1 ups for your monitor and 1 ups for your cpu ? hehehe

[Tamblot]

if you have the budget then there is no problem with that.

just curious, why 2 and not buy one with capacity of two?

[koontz_circle]

pay for quality man

[whoopz]

bitaw no, pwede man pudiay nako gamiton ang new ups for the rig, and the old ups for everything else like the monitor and the speakers.