On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Brent L. Bates <blbates at vigyan.com> wrote: > Personally, I find this UPS exploding paranoia rather ridiculous. One > person has one UPS burst into flames and everyone is yelling the sky is > falling. We have no idea what conditions the UPS had been subjected to and to > then jump to the conclusion that all UPS's are bombs waiting to explode is > just insane. I agree with you, almost 100%. But when thinking about the MTBF of a UPS or what problems it might develop, catching on fire isn't one of the things that comes up.