[Nut-upsuser] Slightly OT: Generators & UPS

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Friday 01 September 2006 17:19, Basheer Noorgat wrote:
> Recently, the power went out and fired up the generator.
> Surprisingly, all UPS worked and accepted the generator power.
>
> This time the only difference was that we also powered off some
> halogen spotlights and some energy saving compact flourescent
> lighting from the generator.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what happened?

Quite possibly the extra load affected the generators output.

You may be able to tune your UPS to accept crappier power, it depends on the 
brand/model.

If the power IS that crappy then I hope you have a dual conversion UPS :)

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