Fiskar UPS

Jan 17, 2004 3 Replies
J

I've been given a Fiskar UPS. Its a PowerWorks 30/3.0 and comprises three units - a control unit, a battery pack and a mains unit, containing a whacking great toroidal transformer.



There are only two buttons on the front of the control unit, a red one with a minus sign on it, and a white one with a cup and dot symbol. Holding the latter in causes a self test light to come on, and pressing it again turns it off.



The thing beeps when I turn off the mains, and the fan in the control unit keeps running.



Does anyone have a manual for one of these? Is the fan meant to keep running all the time - its very noisy!



John


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S

In two of my 4 UPS's the fans run slowly when mains is present, and whip round real fast when you remove the mains.

I think it is because these two are online UPS's so when the mains fails, there is no interruption to the supply - the cheaper smaller ones have a small interruption when the inverter in the unit is turned on, and then it's switched across - online ones have their inverters running all the time, so I guess these need some cooling.

Try connecting PowerWorks for the manual -

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J

In article , Sparks writes

taken over by Exide, then by APC, who seem to have dropped the low end products in favour of their own brand stuff.

John

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I thought APC were owned by Carpet World ?

I've had two UPS fail, they were both APCs, and they both went mad at weekends, boiled the batteries and dumped acid through the carpets. On a recent project they bought APC kit again (despite my warning) and it spewed over the cabling in the bottom of a rack.

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