Ignoramus4548 wrote:
After a couple of decades using UPSes, I became unconvinced that UPSes
increase reliability and especially uptime. The problem is that UPSes
fail for spurious reasons, and when they fail, they leave devices
unpowered.

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I had a nearly new APC brand fail about 2 weeks after I installed it.. I
bought it to replace a 6 year old APC that took a lightning strike.

The new on failed in a spectacular shower of sparks....


Probably due to the 1/2 bottle of Rolling Rock beer that got dumped
directly into the open control section when the beer fell off the side
of the desk...

There is another APS mounted there now. I have hear it trip on/off quite
a few times and the monitor says it has had both low and high spikes
over the years.

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Steve W.