On Sun, 12 May 2013 11:37:56 -0600 Chris <plug....@2nerds.com> wrote:
> I've owned several different UPS brands over the years and APC was the > worst by far. My two APC units both failed within two years of > purchase. I've owned two APC UPSs over the last 20 years. My current one is a Back-UPS LS 700. I forget when I bought it, but its battery date is 2008-09-28, and this is not its first battery. (Hmmm, I should force a self-test soon....) When considering a UPS, also consider support software for your OS. I stick with APC because of apcupsd, which is a nice rock solid piece of software. http://www.apcupsd.com/ It lets me run several machines off the same UPS, and will gracefully shut down each one. The documentation is good. It is available in most Linux distribution repos. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */