From: "Kylesb" (e-mail address removed)
Date: 10/17/2004 3:59 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>
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| Yes, I have 2 of these myself and can run 2 P4 systems off each one
without any
| problems. Wife has the same in the 1000VA model to run her P4
Celeron, Laser
| printer, scanner, 17" CRT monitor, cordless phone, and external USB
2 HDD.
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| This is the better choice of the two, and if you need extra runtime
you can
| connect another battery pack to it.
|
I believe it's generally recommended that a laser printer not be
connected to a UPS as it will draw too much current on the UPS during
power failures. However, given newer designs, perhaps their power
appetite is lessening nowadays.
It is the UPS's red overload LED that comes on when i play Doom 3 orLarry said:Does your UPS have voltage switches on it that you can set the alarm to
differernt voltage drop before it goes off?
I don't have one in front of me but the one I have at work has some little
small switches on it that you slide for .5 V drop 1.0 V drop etc...
all have to do is set it up a little.
I moved my HP Photosmart 7550 printer off my UPS to no avail.LeeBos said:I should have looked further. The Laser printer is plugged into one of the non
battery backup sockets on the UPC, so all it's getting is surge protection.
If i recall, Powerchute was not for this model, APC Back-UPS Pro 500.jaf said:Hi,
Do you have PowerChute installed?
You can check the line voltage & current draw (watts) in PowerChute.
(monitor system>current status)
Write down the readings then with the wattage window open start Doom 3.
What happens?
APC Back-UPS Pro 500...Kylesb said:| LeeBos wrote:
| > I should have looked further. The Laser printer is plugged into
one of the non
| > battery backup sockets on the UPC, so all it's getting is surge
protection.
| >
| I moved my HP Photosmart 7550 printer off my UPS to no avail.
What is the exact model UPS? I suggest a review of the tech literature
on the UPS to ascertain whether it will complain if the total load on
the UPS will trigger such an overload reaction. Perhaps the
"non-power failure" current load is in excess of some specified limit.
NBK said:It is the UPS's red overload LED that comes on when i play Doom 3 or
Unreal II.
Yea, my 19" monitor is plugged into the UPS. I will try to find anotherKeith said:Is you Monitor plugged in to the UPS too? If it is, try just the Computer only
on the UPS.
HiNBK said:Yea, my 19" monitor is plugged into the UPS. I will try to find another
outlet.
NBK