Thread: UPS batteries

I run 2 UPS's, each with 38 x 55 ah batteries.

They will run my equipment for a bit over an hour.





Ok, so that equipment consists of 4 servers, 2 PABX's, 16 "Black Boxes" as well as the switches, routers & all the other necessary equipment to run the 24 workstations as well....

Oh, and I have a really big diesel generator sitting behind it all....

Originally Posted by Tombie

And it won't be 230v stopping your gear working!

Test a power socket at night (so much solar around now that during the day it's quite over) and you'll often find the grid running at 230 or lower...

Interesting. Wonder what it was then, drawing to much power perhaps? Was thinking of putting the UPS on the vaccine fridge but would not after it ran like a chook with its legs tied on the 230v output from the UPS. Could it be the non pure sine wave output or the actual power needed to run it?

UPS voltage are designed to be 240v, solar drain on the grid will have no effect on its output as that is supplied from the batteries via an inverter, thats there designed purpose for supplying stable filtered 240v power to sensitive electronic equpiment, chances are the inverter could be faulty maybe a transister failing which will cause an output voltage drop,