Re: Does a low-priced, "true" UPS exist?


"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wendell III writes:

I'm having a lot of trouble tracking down some kind of consumer UPS
that actually has continuously-fed power (from the battery). I'm
currently in an apartment with somewhat bad power, and need to get
ahold of one or more of these things. Any ideas? Everything I've seen
is over $1K...

American Power Conversion (APC) makes UPS units with battery backup
below $1000, if I'm not mistaken (certainly mine was cheaper than
that, although I bought it a few years ago). See http://www.apcc.com.

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http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1500 is
the one I use and it has worked great for me. I live at "the end of the
line" so to speak, and my power is inconsistent putting it mildly. We also
live in an area that has really bad electrical storms. I used to have
components fail fairly often and since getting this unit, I have had none
whatsoever. It has a small footprint so it does not clutter things up at
all. With a complete power failure, it will run my entire system for at
least a half hour (probably more as I have never tried running it longer). I
have had the power go out during a print job and it seamlessly keeps the
power going until I am finished. IIRC, it was around $200.00 at Circuit City
or Best Buy, I don't remember which.

Ed


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