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I want to chime here because I went through this with my CyberPower UpS and now am looking for another brand. My question then becomes would this have worked without the RMCARD installed and I just didn't wait long enough? Or is this something that only happens because the RMCARD is installed and that configuration is accessible/set? Ultimately though in the time it took for me to get from the wiring closet I had the unit in for testing to my desk to check the management interface it had powered itself back on and was again providing power to the connected devices. Another oddity I noticed was that the management card was still linked up and accessible for a while after the battery was dead. This automatic power on was delayed by a couple minutes, which is probably expected, but I didn't hear anything or notice any other activity from the UPS for the first minute or so after plugging it back in. Unfortunately not powering back on automatically after power is restored is a dealbreaker, so I want to make sure I'm not missing something here.ĮDIT: I just finished the test after installing the management card and the UPS did power back on after utility power was restored. The CyberPower units make a lot of sense for our specific application, obviously the APC units are nice but for the price of not just the UPS but the management cards the CyberPower units are much more cost effective. I still have to run this test again with the management card in place just to see if the behavior is the same, but I wanted to pose the question. Since these are the default settings, I'd assume that they were in this state before I ever installed the management card, but maybe they only get set this way after the management card is installed. Within the web management interface under UPS>Configuration there is a section called "Power Restore" that has the following settings out of the box, which after reading through the manual seems to imply that the UPS should power back on automatically after utility power is restored. This first test was done before installing the RMCARD205 into it. When we got the unit in I immediately went to test this theory by plugging some things into it and killing it on purpose after unplugging it from the wall and I noticed the same behavior: when I plugged it back into the wall it did not turn itself back on again until I physically pressed the power button to turn it off and then again to turn it on. This is also how our current APC units behave. I thought this was strange at the time because no other UPS I had experience with did this, they always powered themselves back on once power was restored. One thing I remember from back then though was we had a power outage that lasted long enough to completely kill the batteries but the UPS did not power back on after power was restored. We have purchased a single CyberPower PR1000LCDRT1U to test out as it checks a lot of our boxes (price, form factor, physical size, capacity) and I have some experience with this model from a previous job.
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