<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 1:09 PM Phil Stracchino via Nut-upsuser <<a href="mailto:nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net">nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 3/21/24 14:00, Greg Oliver via Nut-upsuser wrote:<br>
> All I can say is definitely replace the batteries if you are going to <br>
> keep using it. The CyberPower(s) I have had in the past all have the <br>
> battery check that cannot be turned off and when the batteries are <br>
> actually "dead" the unit will kill the load to everything every time it <br>
> runs the check. Just FYI.<br>
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Yeah, definitely planning on replacing the batteries. Just trying to <br>
mute the alarm in the meantime.<br>
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And probably going to suck it up and buy new battery packs instead of <br>
buying new SLA batteries and rebuilding them, because Cyberpower's <br>
battery "trays" are ghastly. I've seen thicker plastic on <br>
notions-counter blister packs<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">I know it is probably not good practice, but I always cut the speaker wires in all of my UPS units. I only have them to keep watching TV and internet when the storms (or something else) causes outages. It is hard to watch TV when the beep is constantly going :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">On the other hand, it is also hard to know when the batteries are going to fail without the beep.</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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