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DragonMaster
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| Quote: | | Well I'm betting that this thing was sitting in a wharehouse for months (years?) at Buy.com and it sure didn't have any charge when I plugged it in. |
If it has a multi-cycle charging system it will maybe be able to restore the battery with time.
Contact Belkin, maybe this is under warranty. |
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| Posted: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:29:34 Post Subject: |
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| Quote: | | If you want more uptime, don't connect your monitor. |
But don't you need to see what's on your monitor? |
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| Posted: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:26:15 Post Subject: |
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| DragonMaster wrote: | | Quote: | | If you want more uptime, don't connect your monitor. |
But don't you need to see what's on your monitor? |
Not if you have software to automatically save and shutdown your applications and computer.
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An update on this...
I did what someone before recommended. I let it charge with no load on it for 48+ hours, then plugged load into it, ran it as normal for a few hours, and then killed the input power. The battery lasted 4 minutes 47 seconds - before the software sent the shutdown syscall (it does it at 5 minutes of no input power). That's rediculously low considering two people confirmed that a 950VA UPS can sustain dual 21" LCD monitors and their PC (similar to mine) for 10-12 minutes.
I wrote an email to Belkin support to see if they have any troubleshooting/diagnosing ideas. Let's see what comes of it.
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| Posted: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:58:28 Post Subject: |
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| Blue|Fusion wrote: | An update on this...
I did what someone before recommended. I let it charge with no load on it for 48+ hours, then plugged load into it, ran it as normal for a few hours, and then killed the input power. The battery lasted 4 minutes 47 seconds - before the software sent the shutdown syscall (it does it at 5 minutes of no input power). That's rediculously low considering two people confirmed that a 950VA UPS can sustain dual 21" LCD monitors and their PC (similar to mine) for 10-12 minutes.
I wrote an email to Belkin support to see if they have any troubleshooting/diagnosing ideas. Let's see what comes of it. |
Did you change the default settings in the software? |
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