APC Matrix 5000 question(s) (please, lets end this)

Thu Aug 3 00:59:29 UTC 2006

Can't you guys take this off-list? I'm seeing this thread gatewayed  
on *another* mailing list also.

Somehow, APC battery maintenance doesn't seem like a critical topic  
(unlike for example, internet pipe cleaning day) ^)

Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications

joe at via.net
650-207-0372 cell
650-213-1302 office
650-969-2124 fax

On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:34 AM, up at 3.am wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
>
>>
>> up at 3.am wrote:
>>> Update: I replaced the batteries today, and indeed, several of  
>>> the old
>>> ones (mostly in the first pack) were split and some had popped a  
>>> couple of
>>> their "sealed" tops.
>>>
>>> I left for several hours and came back to the house stinking like  
>>> burning
>>> rubber.  The new batteries are apparently melting the terminal  
>>> rubber
>>> insulation.  I had to throw it back into bypass mode and unplug  
>>> that pack
>>> (the only one with new batteries!)
>>>
>>> Any ideas to the cause?  The status screens looked ok. ("no bad  
>>> batteries"
>>> again)
>>>
>> Tip: Except where a newly supplied battery is faulty, replace all or
>> none - across all your packs connected to the same UPS.
>
> Understood...that's why I unplugged the other 2 XR packs from the UPS.
> APC rejected the notion that there was a controller problem, until  
> they
> had me perform the battery test, when it not only cut power (batteries
> were fried anyway), it stayed in test mode until bypassed.   
> According to
> them, even with dead batteries, it should come out within 5-10  
> seconds.
>
> James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> up at 3.am							    http://3.am
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> ===

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