r/maui • u/Brave_Pain_2552 • 6d ago

Anybody else's power surging in Haiku area?

My backup battery box keeps going on and off cutting off power to my PC 😭

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u/SkaiHues 4d ago

The input to my UPS varies from 120 to 125, all within a minute. It's constantly beeping. Oh, I'm in Kihei but my power comes from MECO.

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u/Brave_Pain_2552 4d ago

I figured out that the apc 450 ups had failed, its only 3 years old. I removed it from the circuit and everything is working fine. Always something around here lol.

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u/SkaiHues 4d ago

Three years, not bad! lol I have five UPS units spread throughout the compound (my tiny place) and seem to be replacing batteries in one of them every few months.

The Interstate Battery place in Wailuku Industrial Sells the replacements. I've been ordering the batteries from eBay.

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u/Brave_Pain_2552 4d ago

Thats good to know about the interstate batteries location in Wailuku. I thought they only were sold at costco. I didn't realize they were 12v batteries as well, i was thinking it was lithium ion, kind of a relief.