On 11/13/12 6:49 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: > On 11/13/2012 6:42 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> Sorry to say, I've used them and had them eat themselves. They just >> die mysteriously and let out lots of smoke when they do. When they do, >> however, they leave behind a perfectly good set of batteries. I'd >> recommend looking elsewhere... Does Eaton/PowerWare still make the >> FerrUPS series? Those were *solid*. > > Interesting. So far the feedback sounds overwhelmingly negative. Heard > some good points on Emerson (I'm assuming Liebert?). We've had much > better luck overall with them, although a couple of incidents where they > don't care to come back online after they were drained. > > We largely use the UPS to survive power glitches without dropping the > network for switch reboot times, we're not after long runs. As such, > the occasional extended outages drain the UPS'es and there are always > the percentage of them that do not come back online and require manual > intervention. > > We were formerly a big TrippLite user, but they seem to be incredibly > fault-intolerant with regard to the scenario above (coming back online > after draining), and to a lesser degree, going offline after a power glitch. > > Never used an Eaton that I'm aware of however. > > Would be interested in other recommendations for remote / IDF / MDF > environment UPS systems to just "keep the stack up" over power glitches. >
I do have much larger Eaton units like the 9355 that haven't given me anything to complain about yet. But they're of a wholly different classes and I don't really expect one to represent the other. The 9130 that exploded was my first foray into their smaller side, destined to be a telco room aux unit and replace an APC SmartUPS. ~Seth
