[SWLUG] UPS etc

[Foeh Mannay]

Just my two pence worth...

I used to work in a school where they had an APC UPS. It was the second  
one they had had, the first having died shortly after the warranty  
expiry. I remember on my first day of working there, it decided that it  
was overloaded (it was within spec for what it was powering, and the  
mains hadn't dropped) and rather than attempt a graceful shutdown, it  
just keeled - instant power off to the server. Nice.

I couldn't say whether that's normal for APC or not, I know I saw a few  
dead APC boxes in a previous job I had, but then again I only ever saw  
APC UPSes, never any other brand.

Someone was telling me, though, that Belkin do a lifetime warranty on  
their UPSes *including* batteries - not sure if it's true but if it is  
you can't say better than that really! I'm not a huge fan of Belkin  
(mainly due to their prices) but I think they have a big thing about  
lifetime / 25 year warranties. Certainly worth investigating.

Foeh

On 04/10/02 11:39:14, Philip Downer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:05, Peter Joseph wrote:
> > All i can say is, APC, get the best one you can afford, APC also
> have a very
> > well supported (in linux) communications protocol for UPS to PC
> > communication.
> > I dont have ups on my desktop machines but my server does and it
> basically
> > does a nice clean shutdown 5 mins before the battery power runs  
> out.
> 
> I'm not at all keen on APC, I've used a lot of their UPS' in a few of
> my
> jobs (never my choice to buy APC) and I've never been impressed. If
> you
> want a decent UPS for home use then Belkin have a superb product,
> their
> Pro-UPS Gold (I think thats what it's called) has 8 sockets on it. 4
> of
> them are battery backed and the other 4 are power surge protected, it
> also has network connection surge support and the software that is
> supplied is quite good and even better the cd has versions for  
> Windows
> and Linux.
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> 
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