All too frequent power outages cause my wineadors’ temperatures to reset to the low 50's. I grabbed an unused APC Back-UPS 450 from the office, replaced the battery and hooked it up to both my 70w wineadors (Newair 28's) and a small fan I have in the area that sucks away any heat output from the units.

After the first outage using the UPS, I found both wineadors powered off and the UPS just constant toning. I pressed the UPS button twice and everything came back on. Wineadors were in the low 70's humidity and temperature wise. Not the usual 65/65. This has happened twice so far...guessing that the power was off for too long for the UPS, although an analog clock indicated the power was off for less than a few minutes.

If I don't use the UPS, the units do come back on after outages, their temperatures just get reset to the low 50's and humidity drops to upper 50's. They only stay that way for less than 6 hours, until I reset the temps.

Is this UPS behavior normal? Maybe an ETC…or just go without the UPS?

/shrug

Have you tried a test run?

Fully charged UPS, pull the power cord, see how long the wineadors run.



Either way, <6 hours at 50/50 or 75/75 isn't going to hurt anything.

😣 [quote=Thunder.Gerbil]/shrug

Have you tried a test run?

Fully charged UPS, pull the power cord, see how long the wineadors run.



Either way, <6 hours at 50/50 or 75/75 isn't going to hurt anything.[/quote]


How about six DAYS?

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Make sure the battery is good.

Make sure it has enough capacity to run both wineadors for a few minutes. You'd be surprised how quickly they can burn through it. Most consumer UPS's are just meant to keep a computer running through a blimp or long enough to shut it down once the power goes off. A couple of wineadors might have an even bigger drain.

Make sure the plugs are in plugs backed up by the UPS. Most UPS's have different plugs for devices that can go off (printers, speakers, etc) and those that should stay on (computer, monitor).

Don't forget you can test how long the battery can last by unplugging the UPS. If they go off right away, something is wrong.

What do they suffer through packed into a container to get here? Or in shipping? Probably that or more and they survive.

OP only asked about 6 hours anyway

Don't forget, we deal with _relative_ humidity - not moisture content.

So, the number for RH will change with the temperature while moisture content remains the same.

Basically, you are having a temperature shift due to the reset. Moisture content on a wineador full isn't going to shift very much at all if everything else remains the same.

What do they suffer through packed into a container to get here? Or in shipping? Probably that or more and they survive.

OP only asked about 6 hours anyway