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UPS Clicking Sound?
Asked by zephyr_hex in Hardware Components, Miscellaneous Hardware, Power Supplies / UPS
Tags: clicking, ups, apc, sound
we have an emergency power plan and purchased a large generator. there a certain computers that we want to use in the event of an extended power outage, and so we have purchased APC BACKUPS's for these computers. the UPS's sit between the computer and the generator, so that the computer is protected from the generator. we are not meaning for these UPS's to run on battery for an extended time... but rather, the generator.
last week we tested our plan. the computers ran as expected. our test was for about 15min.
however, we noticed that the UPS's were clicking every few minutes (not beeping). i believe the clicking is from the UPS compensating for power fluctuations (please correct me if i'm wrong). they worked fine for the test... but i want to know if these products are ok to run like this for up to 8 hours at a time. i don't want to assume they will run for 8hours if the compensation/clicking is only meant for short term and they will end up failing if they are constantly run in this condition. it's not like we plan to have an extended power outage... but earlier this year the seattle area was hit by a storm that caused many areas to be out of power for up to a week (luckily we were only out of power for a short time). if something like that happens in our area, i want to be sure our assumption is right that the APC BACKUPS's will be ok with their clicking for up to 8 hours...possibly over a few days...
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