Re: UPS's and battery Backups mostly a RipOff !!!
- From: "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:32:49 +0100
Dave wrote:
10 mo's ago I bought an APC BX1500 UPS/Battery Backup Cost me $169.95 plus tax
That is a cheap UPS
Rated at 110 min backup time (proved to be 45 min). The first one was defective. Got a replacement. It died after 10 months's !!!
These are low cost items.
APC didn't return my call for a service request !!!
Autonomy (battery operation time) is normally *not* quoted at full load, but some fraction of it.
I made the point on here only a week ago that low cost UPSs are often more hassle than they are worth.
Only buy a battery backup that will give you about 5 - 10 minutes. You only want enough power reserve to be able to shut down your computer plus maybe 3 min more to be safe. Once it seems like power is back on and stable, turn your computer back on. To buy anything that has more backup time than a few minutes is NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF MONEY !!!
A battery backup costing about $40.00 or $50.00 bucks is about all that makes sense.
Except that at that price point, quality will be poor. They are often less reliable than the mains supply they are supposed to be guarding you from.
Given the choice of no USP or a $50 UPS I'd settle for no UPS.
If you want a UPS that will keep your system up for several hours or all day, you'll have to pay a fortune.
True. In fact diesel generators are really the only practical way for all day.
I've had 5 hours on my UPS with a low-spec computer on it. But that UPS cost 20 x what you paid for your unit. It will not run from a standard 13A socket in the UK, but needs to be hardwired in to a 32A outlet. (since we have twice the voltage, the same current gives us twice the power, so that would need something like a 63 A connection in the US).
These half way 60-240 min backups are in fact not even good for half that time and are nothing BUT A WASTE OF MONEY !!! Companies keep changing the model numbers so by the time problems happen, likely the UPS you bought will no longer
be in stores - Your basic shell game !
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