[SGVLUG] small UPS recommendation?

[Scott Packard]

Be aware that kVA is a higher number than kW.
What OS are you going to use it with, or are you going to let it
hard-shutdown?

APC is good; I use a 1997 one for home I bought used, and it still works
fine and replacement batteries are easy to find.
It is a SmartUPS; recently I d/l the software and made a cable for it so I
could auto-shutdown a host.
The software allows much more monitoring than I thought was available, so
that was a plus.
Their newer models use an RJ-50 (10-pin RJ-45) so you have to spend the
money for a custom cable.

HPs are okay; Compaq's seem to fail after several years.  Software is
almost impossible to find on their site, and cables are very expensive and
it's hard to find hobbiest support.

Tripp-Lite occupies a bit of a niche.  Cheap, but monitoring software could
be considered a few steps behind in my opinion, but I have good memories of
an inverter I bought decades ago from them.

Last, Eaton makes large ones, and some rack-mount ones.  I see they make
small ones, but I have no experience with them.

- Scott

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Michael Shulman
<michael.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know about a local supplier for UPS parts,  however I have been
> using an APC BR1300LCD for a few years and have good things to say about
> it.  I've generally reliably gotten about ten minutes of power on a busy
> PC, a large monitor and some home networking equipment.
>
> It looks like the successor to the BR1300LCD is the BR1300G. The battery
> is replaceable.
>
> As to the replacement problem, after about four years my battery died and
> I replaced it with a part from  RefurbUPS.com for about $50. It was a
> positive experience.   Aside from sending instructions for replacing the
> battery, they also provide instructions for how to ship back your old
> battery for an extra fee using the same box.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gibbs, Donald E (314D) <
> donald.e.gibbs at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Anyone care to recommend a 500-1K VA uninterruptible power supply for home
>> use with user replaceable batteries?
>>
>> Hopefully with recent experience replacing the batteries from a local
>> supplier.
>>
>>
>> Thanks  --Don
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------
> Regards,
> Michael Shulman
> michael.shulman at gmail.com
> Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity.
>
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