The ups software reported that it was dead, and the cycler & pureflow had shut down. When I plugged them into the wall again, it went through the power recovery routine. The ups had to charge again for 10 - 12hours.
Like Jane notes, I would not want to start a treatment on the ups, but with an hour to play with to wait on the power co, I can run as long as possible, and then cut it short. It will get me through most of my biggest threats - all those d***ed squirrels chewing on a transformer someplace…
At one place we used to joke that the power co kept a bucket of road kill on its service trucks just to have a reason if someone wandered by a site to ask what happened. We did just that one afternoon when we had an outage, and it was a little rodent…
Larry