cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages

#Cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages full#
#Cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages software#
#Cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages Pc#

I don't have an oscilloscope to accurately test the switchover time, but I did do a slightly less accurate test using my phone camera recording at 60 FPS. To my surprise, the switchover time is so long that the incandescent bulb actually shuts off briefly when unplugging the unit. I plugged in a 40w incandescent lamp and gave it a go. I connected it up to the UPS battery terminals using a non official method but still very securely none the less. Voltage was 14.1 when I checked with a multi meter. Since the battery in my unit was getting old, I got my car battery hot off the alternator after my drive home today. I still have this crap UPS, and yes it is still crap. I’m no APC Guru but I’ve been using these UPS backups for decades and while not having many problems with them I have indeed experienced a few.Sorry to revive my old thread, but I found some info worth sharing. Therefore the battery is fine, but there is a failure in the self test or part of that may be the charging system that does not allow the unit to attempt to continue, be this by design I don’t know yet as I’m still researching.Ĭhances are internal hardware failure and requires replacement of the entire unit, one positive note, since the battery is probably still good you can swap it out and reserve the newer battery for later use. I’m personally thinking this is a self test issue where the unit does not detect a successful switch over to battery usage before it switches back to normal mode. All unit vitals look fine aside from showing 0% battery life when plugged in and hearing constant yet intermittent chirps from the APC unit.

Checked circuit breaker on the unit and that of the power strip, all good.

#Cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages full#

My mom is having similar trouble with her APC XS 1000 unit, battery is actually 3/4 full when unit is unplugged from the wall and still provides power to computer.

Perhaps the original battery would still be okay if the UPS had kept it charged. I replaced the battery in the fall of 2019 because the original battery died. My hunch is that the battery is now never being charged and will eventually be permanently damaged.

#Cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages software#

The software also reports the battery is fully charged, which is implausible since I know from experience that it takes hours to reach full charge after a selftest. After startup the UPS software reports the selftest was passed, but given the circumstances I don’t have confidence that that report is valid.

#Cyberpower powerpanel personal does not display outages Pc#

To protect the battery from being drained so far that the battery is damaged, and to protect my pc from losing power and crashing, I respond by quickly shutting down the pc, then shut off and restart the UPS, and then restart the pc. However, recently the UPS developed a second problem that magnifies the first: During the selftest, the pc “loses communication” with the UPS (connected via usb port), the software doesn’t indicate the selftest has completed, and the UPS seems like it remains in battery mode… its internal fan doesn’t stop spinning, as if it isn’t cooling down and is continuing to drain the battery.

I’ve been doing a selftest about once per month. So, for awhile it was possible to maintain a charge by periodically performing a UPS selftest. The reason I believe the UPS hasn’t been keeping the battery charged is that the selftest reduces the reported battery charge from 100% to about 65% in a few seconds, and then it takes hours of charging before the UPS software (CyberPower PowerPanel Personal v2.2.0) reports the battery is again at 100%. It seems the only time it will charge the battery is immediately after a selftest it charges the battery to full after a selftest but then it ridiculously thinks the battery stays fully charged while the battery actually gradually loses its charge (which will eventually destroy the battery if it’s allowed to discharge too far). I have a similar problem with my CyberPower UPS (model CP1000PFCLCD).