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Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:11:22 -0400
In message <20030529144110.J31299 () kod inch com>, Gerald writes:
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote:I've seen two previous APCs (both Matrixes) fry batteries... The batteries balloon up, and get really hot, and are too big to extract from the chassis.I've also personally witnessed an APC do this. I'm not a fan of APC. They sent us a replacement APC but I still prefer the rack mount Tripp Lites we used at the last company I worked for.
There was a recent recall of some of their home/SOHO UPSs -- battery overheating, with risk of fire. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
Current thread:
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC), (continued)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC) Dan Hollis (May 29)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Jack Bates (May 29)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Dan Hollis (May 29)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Stephen Sprunk (May 29)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Dan Hollis (May 30)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Joel Jaeggli (May 30)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Dan Hollis (May 30)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes bmanning (May 30)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes Jack Bates (May 30)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC) Dan Hollis (May 29)
- Re: "They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC) David Lesher (May 29)
- Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC) Gerald (May 29)