[ale] APC UPS

[Robert E. Karaffa, II]

I've always been led to believe that one wants a UPS that can talk to the
computer so that when power fails and the humans are away, the computer can
take care of itself.

-Bob K.


on 5/7/03 2:55 PM, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net at
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Transam wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm considering a UPS for home use.  I'm doing some reading now about what
>>> numbers matter and what is worth paying for when it comes to a UPS.
>> 
>>> I'm curious what sentiment the group at large has.  Surely a lot of you know
>>> more about UPS(es) than I.
>> 
> <<snip usual excellent response>>
>> 
>> Regarding surge suppressors (that one should have on peripherals), the
> 
> Question time - There used to be power conditioners which were
> intermediate between a surge suppressor and a UPS in price. You didn't see
> them often, but I haven't seen any in ages. They could tame _big_ power
> surges, big short voltage drops, longer slight voltage drops, and in
> general clean up the line power to something pretty nice.
> 
> Question is are these things still around for sale and worth the effort?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>> cheap ones are essentially worthless.  They have merely a diode to
>> absorbe
> 
> <<snip again>>
>> number of spikes, who needs it.  Most outages are for only a few seconds
>> so there probably is not a need for most even to bother with the "wire
>> the UPS to the computers to shut down the computers stuff".  It IS nice
>> to have for commercial use.
> 
> Given that I've had two multiday outages and a single day outage in the
> last six months, I probably need to reimplement that "shutdown wire"
> stuff.

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