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Re: Can PSU cable be used on printer?
It was a brand new printer. The cable was from an Antec Basiq 350W PSU. What would have caused the battery backup to freak and the other battery backups plugged into different outlets to freak?
It's a Samsung ML 2510, btw. |
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Jahntassa
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| Seeing as that is a laser printer, I really hope you didn't plug it into the Battery side of that battery backup.
NEVER plug a laser printer into a battery backup unless you plug it into the 'surge only' side of the battery. If you plug the printer directly into the wall it should work fine.
Any standard power cable would work fine. There's no way the power cable itself caused a problem unless it was faulty. |
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fartness
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clubs: | The first time I tried the battery side, then I tried the surge side. Same results.
Why can't I do that, and what damage did I likely do? The printer still turns on but it smells and doesn't seem to work (warning light). |
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| Laser printers require high amperage to startup and print, (most) battery backups are not designed to provide the kind of instant power that lasers need, and you can easily damage the circuitry of the UPS by connecting one to it. Most UPSs have explicit instructions NOT to connect a laser printer.
As far as the printer error, the manual for it is here: »downloadcenter.samsung.com/conte···lish.pdf
Start on page 36 of the PDF for troubleshooting. |
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fartness
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| The UPS still works, do you think it's ok or damaged?
What about my other UPS's that were plugged into a different wall outlet, but most likely on the same circuit? Could those have been damaged as well? They went on battery backup each time I turned the laser printer on. |
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| The one you had it plugged into probably went into a protect mode, while the other batteries most likely turned on due to the voltage drop from the printer.
Keep in mind the printer is trying to pull 5~7 amps, most likely on a 15 amp circuit. If you have a lot of equipment in the room you're putting it in you may want to see if you can relocate it to another circuit altogether.
The batteries are probably fine. If you want to test it, run the self-test on the UPS (if it has one) or unplug it from a wall to see if it still responds normally |
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If this is a brand new printer, are you sure that there isn't some sort of packing inside the printer that needed to be removed? It might has locked up some moving parts and thereby caused the overload. Happened to me once on a sharp laser. 
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