Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>>   I think my UPS is dying.  Time to get a new one.  It's been years, so
>> there may be new tech out there I don't know about.  My normal usage is
>> * 1 LCD monitor 24"
>> * 1 (sometimes 2) "desktop" PCs connected to the monitor
>> * 1 ADSL router/modem
>>
>>   What brand and VA rating would people recommend.  The stuff I'm
>> concerned about is the 2 or 3 times a year I get power flickers, or a
>> short outage.  And also, if power is out for more than 5 minutes, and
>> the battery is running low, I want the PC to be able to sense that and
>> execute /usr/sbin/hibernate
>
> I personally have a Cyberpower 1350VA (with fancy LED display to show
> current load, estimated time remaining, etc.). It is supported by NUT
> in linux so my box can do a clean shutdown when the UPS battery is
> running low. Running my big PC (with 7 HDDs RAID) it gives me around
> 30 to 45 minutes of life on battery before the shutdown kicks in. My
> power outages at my house are generally either <5 seconds, or
> hours/days with nothing in-between. :)

I will also add I had an Ultra brand UPS before (actually made by
Powercom), which was extremely cheap, I'm talking about $79 shipped
for 1500VA UPS, and it spontaneously stopped working one day, just
outside of the warranty period. It was not supported by NUT, the linux
software required binaries instealled to /etc and also to write its
logs to /etc and generally did not work well anyway. I will avoid
Powercom/Ultra UPS in the future.

At work we use APC brand UPS and they generally seem to work very
well, though they tend to be quite expensive.