[kwlug-disc] UPS recommendations?

Chris Frey cdfrey at foursquare.net
Sat Jul 27 01:25:31 EDT 2024


On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 07:10:34PM -0400, Ron Singh wrote:
> Recently-ish, a YT channel, "Mr. Carlson's Lab", did a repaid on an APC
> BR1500xx UPS. To his surprise(and mine!), he found that the Copper leads
> were horribly "soldered" to Aluminium windings! I checked a dead APC
> BR1500MS2 at work and found the same was true of that model.
> Thanks to that Carlson vid, no more APC consumer UPSeses used at my office.

Pardon my electrical ignorance here, but what's wrong with
copper/aluminium mixing in this case?

- Chris




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