[SWLUG] UPS recommendations?

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jonathan Wright wrote:

> I've had alot of success with APC over the years, including their
> Back-UPS range, with using standard UK plugs, rather than kettle
> sockets, as the power source, so you can plug anything you want into
> them. Generally, half the sockets are battery backed up with the other
> half just surge protected.

The one problem I've had with the Back-UPS devices is that (in my 
experience) if you overload them it triggers an "overload" buzzer and the 
only way to reset it is to power off the whole device (and all your 
equipment).  Other than that, no issues with them at all.

Although I will point out that im my experience, stupidity with UPSes 
seems far more frequent than power cuts (I point at an old boss who 
decided to test the UPS by pulling the external power... and then 2 
seconds later realised the batteries were well and truely dead as an 
entire 42U rack powered down in the middle of the working day :)

  - Steve
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