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by jeffrallen 284 days ago
Not to mention the other leading cause of outages: UPS's.

Sigh.
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icedchai 284 days ago
UPSes always seem to have strange failure modes. I've had a couple fail after a power failure. The batteries died and they wouldn't come back up automatically when the power came back. They didn't warn me about the dead battery until after...
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sgarland 284 days ago
That’s why they have self-tests. Learned that one the hard way myself.
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icedchai 283 days ago
My UPS was supposedly "self testing" itself periodically and it still happened!
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sgarland 283 days ago
Oof, sorry.
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