Posted: 9/19/2012 8:10:15 AM EDT
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So about 6 years ago I bought a couple rack mountable Cyberpower 1500VA UPS's. Within weeks of each other, they have both died a terrible smelly death.
Now I need two more, but this time they don't need to be rack mountable, and don't need to be nearly as powerful. I need one for my PC, and one for my server. I've always been told that nobody ever got fired for buying APC stuff, so I was looking at getting a couple of these. Link Good choice? |
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I have the 1250VA version Although I've been having issues with it. I've had the unit replaced twice and the batteries replaced about 4 times already and I just had another bad battery alarm yesterday.  It's all been covered under warrenty so far. |
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We have 35 of APC USP's scattered around the WAN in various server and comm closets. Mostly rack mounted 1000 and 1500's. We lose 4-5 batteries a year. Only had one unit actually go toes up on me and it was a smaller 750 unit in a closet most folks had completely forgotten about until it dropped out. Worst issue I've had with them is replacing swollen batteries. It can make it a bit of a pain to get them out of the unit. The newer APC's have a rather nice, and easy to configure, set-up screen on them. Looks like a good unit for the price. My 2 cents... |
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We have 35 of APC USP's scattered around the WAN in various server and comm closets. Mostly rack mounted 1000 and 1500's. We lose 4-5 batteries a year. Only had one unit actually go toes up on me and it was a smaller 750 unit in a closet most folks had completely forgotten about until it dropped out. Worst issue I've had with them is replacing swollen batteries. It can make it a bit of a pain to get them out of the unit. The newer APC's have a rather nice, and easy to configure, set-up screen on them. Looks like a good unit for the price. My 2 cents... We run APC exclusively at work and I have never had a actual unit die....Just batteries. And yes swollen batteries suck 
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We have 35 of APC USP's scattered around the WAN in various server and comm closets. Mostly rack mounted 1000 and 1500's. We lose 4-5 batteries a year. Only had one unit actually go toes up on me and it was a smaller 750 unit in a closet most folks had completely forgotten about until it dropped out. Worst issue I've had with them is replacing swollen batteries. It can make it a bit of a pain to get them out of the unit. The newer APC's have a rather nice, and easy to configure, set-up screen on them. Looks like a good unit for the price. My 2 cents... We run APC exclusively at work and I have never had a actual unit die....Just batteries. And yes swollen batteries suck
I've had to drill out rivets on old 1400s to get the batteries out. They all went back into service. I can count on one hand out of the hundereds of them that I worked on how many actually went bad. |
| I have never used the "consumer" class UPS's from APC but I have used hundreds of the smartups line from them at work and I don't remember ever having one actually die, just batteries, usually go with replacements from Gruber power services. For my home stuff I usually buy the empty units off ebay for 50$ or so and put 50$ worth of batteries in em. I have two of their 1500va Smartups's now. Yeah swollen batteries do suck but you can take the whole thing apart to get to them. I haven't used the LCD ones but considering that the ones I have worked so well I would assume they are good too. |