Hey guys. I'm the newest guy in our IT team so I'm not claiming to be very experienced in real experience. Heres the story. Friday night our real UPS system died on us. Needed new batteries (they hadnt let me set it up with a network connection or SNMP traps and monitoring or we would have known) so we replaced our one big UPS with MANY smaller UPSs. Tonight we had a small power outtage due to one of our smaller UPSs going out on us. We shuffled some things to other UPSs and got everything back up and running, but with a VERY high load. According to the readout on the front of the UPS, 230% load.
My question is: how long will a UPS be able to function with 230% load running through it. I'm not asking how longs it's battery will last without mains power (the readout on the front was claiming eight minutes), but how long will the UPS be able to handle more load than it was designed for?