I decided to let the battery charge up to 100% and then try a runtime. APC's forum quotes 'The battery constants give the battery status via. SOURCE: APC Back UPS RS-1000 Overload LED with beeping sound after on. In the end solution is you have to bring it nearest apc service. If you loaded more than its max. Capacity at past, the sensor of power is geting burn the sequare wave generator IC. So you need help with that, olso complicated.
Some corrections:APC UPS dont start normally with the battery disconnected. You may be able to force it to cold boot though. Will start up OK if the battery is discharged but connected although I have had a battery pack that required me to charge it before it was recognised, however strange that seems.Even though they are 'hot-swappable' ther are times when you need to cold boot after swapping the batteries. Especially if you need to clear the warning lights. The APC engineer didnt seem to understand my frustration at his insistence on me shutting down my network to clear the 'Replace Battery' warnings.You could also try sending them to Coastal Business Machines for refurb, they are the official APC refurb'er. JCAlexandres wrote:Brandon Waldo wrote:Sadly the unit is not under warranty.
I know some UPS won't power on if there is a totally dead battery. I don't have voltmeter with me today to test battery. The battery is straight from manufacturer and should come with enough charge.
Maybe I will have to give battery a charge.A functional UPS will power up even if the battery is totally discharged, provided the electric circuit you are connecting to is providing 'juice'.Which may be the source of the failed battery message too. Some corrections:APC UPS dont start normally with the battery disconnected. You may be able to force it to cold boot though.
Will start up OK if the battery is discharged but connected although I have had a battery pack that required me to charge it before it was recognised, however strange that seems.Even though they are 'hot-swappable' ther are times when you need to cold boot after swapping the batteries. Especially if you need to clear the warning lights.
The APC engineer didnt seem to understand my frustration at his insistence on me shutting down my network to clear the 'Replace Battery' warnings.You could also try sending them to Coastal Business Machines for refurb, they are the official APC refurb'er. Simon Smith wrote:We have many APC Smartups 5000 UPS's these are coming up to 10 years old, We have swapped out the batteries after five years and they worked fine until we shut them down and not one of them came back up, I sure the components within simply give up the ghost, and I’m sure the cost of a new unit with batteries would be cheaper than getting the unit repaired, that’s if you can still get the same model that is.I can second this. I had a similar unit that was showing errors, I replaced the batteries which did not resolve the error LED's then at the request of APC support I power cycled the unit. Once it shutdown it never came back up.