Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <20030529144110.J31299 () kod inch com>, Gerald writes:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> > I've seen two previous APCs (both Matrixes) fry batteries...  The
> > batteries balloon up, and get really hot, and are too big to extract from
> > the chassis.
>
> I've also personally witnessed an APC do this. I'm not a fan of APC.
> They sent us a replacement APC but I still prefer the rack mount Tripp
> Lites we used at the last company I worked for.

There was a recent recall of some of their home/SOHO UPSs -- battery 
overheating, with risk of fire.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
                http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)