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Offline sam1275Topic starter

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UPS trouble-shoot
« on: July 25, 2018, 02:15:35 pm »
Hello.
There is an UPS that stopped working when no one's around, when we checked it later, we found it would not power on. The 12v battery is only 4v, but the wall socket is supplying power.
We didn't find anything burn or wrong after took it apart, but it must be broken somewhere, otherwise the battery would not be drained to that low even if the wall power was out.
We don't have a spare battery now, but would a healthy UPS turn on without a good battery(but with wall power only)?
Also what will be the most possible reason for it to broken?
Thanks.
 

Offline Bratster

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Re: UPS trouble-shoot
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2018, 01:39:00 am »
Hello.
There is an UPS that stopped working when no one's around, when we checked it later, we found it would not power on. The 12v battery is only 4v, but the wall socket is supplying power.
We didn't find anything burn or wrong after took it apart, but it must be broken somewhere, otherwise the battery would not be drained to that low even if the wall power was out.
We don't have a spare battery now, but would a healthy UPS turn on without a good battery(but with wall power only)?
Also what will be the most possible reason for it to broken?
Thanks.
UPS' generally will not power up if the battery is dead.

if this UPS is over a year old it's possible that it just killed the battery by overcharging it and then there was finally a power outage or got unplugged or something and was not able to restart cuz the battery was dead.

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Re: UPS trouble-shoot
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2018, 04:52:40 am »
Yeah, most UPS won't start with dead batteries. It's possible that the charge circuit died, but change the batteries first. Then, you'll be able to tell if anything else is awry.
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