Hello,
I have been owning an APC Back-UPS BX1600MI for a little under two years and have been encountering issues with it recently: the battery failed in August, I had to RMA and the replacement one is stuck on battery power while plugged to the mains since last night.
From what I gathered online, this model is plagued with issues, so I’m looking for another one.
My requirements are:
- Purchasable in the EU
- Has a variant with FR or DE plugs
- Can be monitored with NUT over USB or Ethernet
- At least 900VA capacity but if I can get the same capacity as currently (1600VA) for about 200€ I would
Thanks a lot!
EDIT: The UPS is fine, it turns out my street’s transformer had an issue and only provided 135V instead of the expected 230V, which means that the UPS was on battery for a valid reason. What lead me to believe that the UPS was at fault was that every other appliances seemed to work fine.
My experiences are few years old, so I don’t remember excact models anymore, but some back-ups models (es series rings a bell, but as I said, it’s been a while) had batteries with soldered connectors and form-factor which (at least at the time) wasn’t available from anyone else than APC.
The only proprietary battery thing I’ve come across using APC for decades was a connector that combined two standard batteries. It was attached to them and bound them together with stickers and connected to the terminals of each with normal terminal connectors. I just bought 2 standard replacement batteries and put the adapter on them. It all fit right back in and ran like new.
Mines at least that as well, it’s good to know come next ups purchase as I would hate to get stuck with that kind of garbage. I’ll have to pay close attention to the battery now when searching