[GLLUG] UPS trouble

[Richard Houser]

You must have crap breakers.  They should last a lot better than that.  How
did you measure the current anyhow?
On Jul 23, 2012 3:56 PM, "Peter Christenson" <pac1.mi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> linux-user mailing list
>> linux-user at egr.msu.edu
>> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/**mailman/listinfo/linux-user<http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user>
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-user mailing list
> linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20120723/613600f6/attachment-0001.html>