[ale] OT: UPS

[Christopher Fowler]

Was this the unit?
http://www.oclug.on.ca/archives/oclug/2003-August/032900.html
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:37 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > My APC UPSes never die.  My oldest one is about 9 years old (on its
> > second battery and probably due for a third one, available at Batteries
> > Plus).
> > 
> > My house was hit with a lightning surge that fried some electronics that
> > was NOT behind APC UPSes or Surge Protectors.  None of the equipment
> > behind the APC equipment has been damaged.
> > 
> 
> Twice in my life I've walked in my NOC (I used to own a regional ISP) 
> to find a large expensive rack mount APC UPS spewing smoke and cycling on 
> and off every couple of seconds. The second one got hurled from the 
> loading dock and received last rites from several .45 slugs, just 
> as the fire engines pulled up. It made me feel better, thet laughed once
> they realized I was shooting at the UPS and not a person. The cops
> were not so amused. The next week we replaced -all- of the APC UPS's.
> 
> We played with what we had, and at the time the "Best" brand UPS's were
> incredible.. and we bought more of them. 
> 
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