Uninterruptible Power Supply question
Could one assume that all APC and CyberPower UPS's will in addition to providing battery backup, smooth the output A/C power? Reason I ask is that I'm in the process of installing a Generac whole hou...
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dryfly wrote:
Could one assume that all APC and CyberPower UPS's will in addition to providing battery backup, smooth the output A/C power? Reason I ask is that I'm in the process of installing a Generac whole house generator and while the specs look good, I still have some issue with the powering of some electronic gear. I'm just not sure if the Generac truly puts out pure sine wave voltage.
After installing Generac back up generator I had problems with 2 different models of APC UPS's. APC said it was the generator, the Generac dealer said it was APC! The generator installer did an upgrade designed to make the generator more compatible with some furnace electronics - it didn't help.
The UPS came on when the utility power dropped, but after the generator started it still insisted there was a fault, and ran the battery down. It never passed the generator power through...
