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zrock

Minister of Fire
Dec 2, 2017
1,678
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Watch your cyber power backups... Have had one on my stove for about a year now and randomly it would kick on and the stove would briefly fire up.. I thought it was just a surge that was not effecting anything else in the house. But tonight it did it again and the stove has been off for weeks never had this issue when i had the power bar.. I figured since the stove was off for the season i would grab my small tower fan and hook it up and run down the battery. In about 20 seconds the time started counting down like a fast clock and then leveled out briefly at the 1/2 way mark. I then noticed the fan shut off well low and behold the cyberpower fried my tower fan must have taken out the circuit board as their was no burning smell of a fried motor. Sorta pissed you buy a product to protect your equipment and it damages them, Stove seems fine i plugged it into the wall and it powered up as normal. Tomorrow when its cooler ill fire it up and let it complete a startup and give it the year end cleaning
 
My 'cyberpower' is a 27KW diesel powered standby out by the shop....lol
 
LOL... since i removed it the stove has not mysteriously flashed on. Sucks as the thing was not even a year old but not going to waste my time on warranty...