I've got a Cyberpower 1500 that been dependable for a couple of years ( worked 
through two sets of batteries and still going ).  I've also used lots of APC 
units that I don't like and don't recommend either

- jf

On May 12, 2013, at 12:54, Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> 
wrote:

> 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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