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CyberPower Intelligent LCD - what does this beep code mean?

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Wedge1

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I have a CyberPower Intelligent LCD CP600LCD 600 VA Desktop uninterruptible power supply. I came home to hear a long continuous beep, non-stop, that requires a power recycle to make it stop.

Does anybody know what this means? The reason I ask is because it has done this twice in one week, and usually a power event causes it to have discrete beeps until I recycle power, but the last two times it has been continuous. Does a continuous beep mean something more sinister? Like maybe the batteries need replacing or the unit is becoming defective?
 
We have an UPS here where I'm stationed and the continuous beep for this one means that there was a breaker thrown on the UPS itself.
 
 
VirtualLarry said:
600VA is only around 300-330W. Is your PC drawing more than that at the wall? It does sound like an overload to me.
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Depends on the power factor of the UPS. This particular UPS does have a freaking terrible power factor of .58, which is indeed 340W.
 
I don't know how much it's drawing at the wall.

I just went from an HD 4850 video card to a 560Ti. At idle, I thought the power draw would improve considerably, but these two events occurred at idle.

Here is what I have connected to this Cyberpower unit:

HP w2408h 24'' monitor

PC1:
Corsair 520w HX
Gigabyte ES3G
e6750
3 GB SuperTalent
Seagate 750GB
Asus 560Ti (normal clock speeds)
X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card
Samsung Sata DVD-RW

I wouldn't think this system would overload the Cyberpower unit at idle.

I am thinking I must have connected a 2nd PC to it temporarily on one of these occassions (I had one from a friend that I was trouble shooting recently). I must have left it turned on while I went to work (I leave my PC on most of the time, so I may have done the same with the other PC). If that's the case, I am not too concerned because I never intended it to support two power hungry PCs.

But given the specs of my PC alone, it shouldn't be too much for this UPS, should it?
 
It could be just failing. I had a UPS fail on me. It was a nice beefy 1200VA unit, like 700-750W. Even with the load turned off (standby current only), it would go into overload, and display "Overload" on the LED. Something inside of it must have gotten messed up.
 
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