Back-UPS garbage? (was: Quick survey -- UPSs on slave nodes?)
Dan Christensen
jdc at uwo.ca
Thu Feb 13 19:28:03 PST 2003
Drew Raines <drew-list-beowulf at poured.net> writes:
> No, I didn't get what I paid for. I paid for it to keep a
> low-budget PC up for a minute during an outage so I could either
> reboot the machine, or let the power come back to life.
The Back-UPS 650 works great for me. Keeps an OTS PC and monitor up
for more than half an hour.
> The box gave me the impression that said unit would do this for 17
> minutes. I got 2-3 seconds.
This is a silly question, but did you remember to plug the battery in??
If so, then just exchange them, as they are clearly defective. Lots
of people use the Back-UPS line.
Dan
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