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.

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