[GLLUG] UPS trouble

[Peter Christenson]

sorry Clay didn't mean to just send this to just you.

although I don't post here much. I can tell you from personal experience.
go with a new beaker, if you trip the breaker to many times it will start
to get "soft" and trip under less load. I have fried 3 20amp breakers do to
tripping them. on the last one I tested the trip load on it from trip 1 to
failure, and after about 10 trips it was down to 19.5 amps, 50 trips was
down to 16 amps. 62 trips was the failure.  don't know if this random info
helps but load balancing helps a lot!!

Peter.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Don Bosman <dbosman at msu.edu> wrote:

> Make the mess. It's cheaper than even a small fire.
>
> Don Bosman
>
>
> On 7/23/2012 3:00 PM, Tom Schouten wrote:
>
>> Yep that's the real problem which will be fixed when (time) budget allows.
>> Currently due to how things are setup I can't do this without making a
>> mess...
>>
>> On 07/23/2012 02:32 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> That's the point I was trying to make.  If you can add a breaker
>>> dedicated to the computer equipment, you reduce the load on the original
>>> circuit that has ACs and whatever else on it.
>>>
>>> A 15 amp breaker costs about $10 bucks, and 12 gauge wire is less than a
>>> buck per foot.
>>>
>>>
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