Tripplite UPS Bad?

[SanDiegoPC]

My two year old UPS was half-dead this morning. All of the plugs on one side work and all of the others are dead. My computer was of course, plugged into the side that offers battery backup protection plus voltage spike protection. That's the side that's dead.

All of the outlets on the other side work fine and that's what I'm plugged into this morning. I know it's voltage-protected but I don't like not having battery backup.

So is this unit defective or is it just in need of a new battery? With it plugged in and getting full power, I don't know why that side would be dead - all of a sudden, overnight - even if the battery was bad. Seems to me the only way I'd know if the battery was dead would be if I was trying to run my PC after the wall power failed.

Am I wrong?

 

[Modelworks]

If it is plugged in and getting full power then all outlets should be working. If they are not then it is defective and not the batteries. The only units that will not work with full power and bad batteries are online UPS that do double conversion. If you paid under $500 for the UPS then you likely don't have one of those.

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Correct, it's a 100-125 dollar item rated at 1000Va.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Emulex]

dude junk it. i've had two 1025's (tall boys) spit fire out at me, and 2 die where you can only cold start them (unplugged from the wall).

i will never ever use a tripplite again. they run way too hot. Replaced them with APC SUA2200XL with ubx48p's over the last few years and haven't had a single problem.

if you really want a good tip - firebuy (lol at the name) on ebay used to sell used shells. i bought a couple to keep my new batteries - they died a miserable death too.

I think the high internal temp (about 15c more than a smart-ups) causes failure right around when the warranty runs out

 

[Puffnstuff]

I've only owned one tripplite ups myself and it didn't last long for me. Seems like it died right after the warranty expired. With apc the battery seems to go right after the warranty expires and the replacement is so expensive that I end up just buying a new unit. That's what we get for buying consumer grade units.

 

[Zap]

UPS batteries likely start to degrade after a year anyways, so unless you have a line on cheap batteries (sometimes electronics surplus shops or specialty shops have cheap batteries) then you need to keep in mind a replacement.

 

[sigint787]

Is there a way to somehow connect/merge two seperate Tripplite units as one so that the server that I am running will still be powered even if any one of the two units fail or die? I thought about daisy chaining the units but that still leaves the slave unit as the point of failure, where the slave UPS is connected/plugged into to the master UPS, and the server box is plugged into the slave UPS... but if the slave UPS fails, the server still goes down even if the master UPS is still alive....

Is there a way to intercross the two dual UPS together to make them into one redundant system so that if any one fails the server will still be powered and the only way it will lose power is if both failed at the same time?

 

[bryanl]

I haven't tried a Tripplite UPS, but I have seen UPSes fail to work simply due to a faulty battery.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a tripp lite inverter-charger and there's a warning on it that the AC will NOT be available if it has no batteries. Maybe the UPSes work the same. Check to make sure the battery did not somehow get loose. Batteries slowly die but they wont just randomly completely die 100% unless let discharged for many years, so I doubt it died hard enough for this to happen.

For what it's worth, try to see if the UPS works with another battery or other 12V source. If there are two batteries in series you may need a 24v source.

For replacement batteries never go through the UPS company (whether it's Tripp Lite, APC etc) as they'll gauge you. Check a local electrical shop to see if they sell gel cells.

 

[Remobz]

I haven't tried a Tripplite UPS, but I have seen UPSes fail to work simply due to a faulty battery.

Tripplite sucks. I would not recommend one.