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Well to rehash on old thread I thought I'd put an update on this unit. A couple weeks ago I heard a loud pop when the power was blinking a little. I looked and saw nothing wrong nor saw smoke. I have...
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Sounds like this thing is a fire hazard. I hope people report it to big brother who's always watching out for you.
https://www.saferproducts.gov/IncidentReporting
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If you look early on this page I gave my experience on dealing with their warranty team. I had to get mines replaced in the first 20 days due to a burning plastic smell.
It only took me a 10...
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Sorry to revise an older thread, but I got one of these BR1500MS units back in June. I never had a a UPS before but wanted one with the brownouts associated with summer here in CA. I enjoyed the UPS...
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If you are referring about my DOA, I don't recall if there was a specific failure code, but it was the battery not passing tests. The battery was defective I think even though within the box is the...
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The support rep only asked me if any of my electronics connected to the ups were acting funny, besides that their was no other questions
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Are you saying they didn’t have you answer a bunch of questions about the failure? Or just that your support rep was faster than the one I got?
To be clear, I don’t have a problem with how it went...
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That’s not at all how it went for me, they had a replacement shipped to me in 10 min chay
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Support was closed over the weekend. I spent a little over an hour online with a chat agent during the day today which I guess is about par for the course - agents have to follow the flow-chart in...
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See if APC meets your expectations on the exchange and see how the replacement runs. It may run fine for years and you'll look back and may not be as upset as you are now. Or if you run into more...
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I haven’t opened it up beyond the battery compartment to disconnect the pack. I likely won’t open it unless APC won’t warranty it (unlikely obviously) but I’ll try to shine a light in the vents and...
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I run 2 of these for 1/2 year and little less than 1 year, no problems with either yet. Did have a defective one out the box but APC sent new one to me and it's been working as it should ever since....
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I got mines replaced by them this week, I didn’t have any errors but mines smelled like burnt plastic when the battery came on
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I guess APC has gone down the tubes. I have had many CyberPower UPSs throughout the years and while they have not always been perfect, none of them went up in smoke.
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I was happy to get in on this deal back when it was live. Now I’m wishing I’d missed it. The unit I received failed catastrophically with the continuous beep, F02 code, and toxic smoke like many...
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Understood that 6/10 are battery protected and 4/10 are only surge-protected My ink jet printer is connected to one of those 4 SP outlets.
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I mentioned that it's on the surge protect only side, not the battery side.
Also it's not a laser printer but one of those HP all-in-one ink jet printers.
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No printer should ever be on the battery-protected side of a UPS (if it has sides, some UPS units have only the battery-protected outlets).
It's worth noting that with the APC Back-UPS Pro BR...
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Generally it's not recommended and in my past experience a laser printer has a pretty large draw that will usually cause the UPS to kick in to compensate the undervoltage. If your load is on the...
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You should be fine, I have had printers on both the battery backed up side and the surge protector side no problems. Yes it will kill the battery backed up side a lot quicker so its not recommended...
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