I reviewed this thread and one of the main points is APC is not a good product. The one unit that was suggested was very pricey.
I am in the market for a UPS for a public facing headless LAMP server I run out of my home office. It has a 300 watt power supply. Basically what I am looking for is: 1) low price < $100 2) to power down or deal with lightening since that season is upon us real soon 3) software to power down system (CentOS) 4) must be safe since it is in my house and I have pets. No fires, no acid, etc. Thank you for your feedback and guidance. ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Mon, 5/13/13, Chris <plug....@2nerds.com> wrote: From: Chris <plug....@2nerds.com> Subject: Re: UPS recommendations To: "Provo Linux Users Group" <plug@plug.org> Date: Monday, May 13, 2013, 7:51 PM On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Nicholas Leippe <n...@leippe.com> wrote: > Where they are always online: > 1) do they produce a lot of heat? > 2) noise? > As I can't vouch for the performance of contemporary online UPS models, the following observations are necessarily limited to my experience with the ancient Prestige units. I've never noticed any warmth from them, but they do draw power continuously above and beyond that consumed by the output load. With no load, they dissipate a bit under 100 watts (as measured by a kill-a-watt-like device), which is ~10% of their rated output. That's substantially more idle/internal power consumption than a non-online UPS sitting in standby mode, but it's a price I've been willing to pay for the non-switching sine-wave output. I wouldn't be too surprised if more modern online models were a bit more efficient given that they're built with technology that is ~15 years newer. My Prestige units have a small (100 mm-ish) variable-speed internal fan that runs continuously at a low speed--which is probably why they don't get noticeably warm when dissipating ~100 watts of power. I don't find the fan noise objectionable; others might. Again, more modern online models might be quite different. See, for example, the 9130 tech-specs page<http://powerware.eaton.com/PW9130L1500T-XL.aspx?CX=3> . /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
