[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by slodave
Hi Joe,

With the APC, what do you mean by weak?

On the other brands, did you replace the batteries or are you just trying to charge the old ones? With a 5-6 charge, I would think you would see something, but would not really run very long under load. With new UPS's out of the box, I cheat and plug them in and use them. I just count on the fact there will be no outage. I would give them at least 12 hours to charge.

You should not have to have the front switch on for the APC's to charge. I have a Back UPS 420 just sitting, plugged into the wall. <-- It's good for small lights or fish tanks. Not sure about the others, but I would think they are the same.

Dave

P.S. I used to have a T.V. plugged into a UPS and I still use them to power lights during the rare outage. The T.V. was fun, as cable still worked.

Dave,

Sorry, the APC units have a "test" switch on them and when I push on one of them it emits a nice strong beep, while the other one makes the tone, its weak compared to the other one.

Have not replaced any batteries yet, just trying to see if any of them will come up "as is" for now. Am too Scottish I guess! Have lived without an APS for years and if I can get one or two of them working for nothing then am way ahead of where I was before. For my own personal computer will probably buy new batteries as APC sells a kit for $49 with everything. Course if Batteries plus, AZ batteries and so on are cheaper will go with them.

Have plugged the "tripro power plus 1000" into power overnight and no signs of life so guess its dead. Both of the APC units (BK650MC) came up and will do a load test on them this morning.

Thanks much!

Joe