Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:37:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > The deeper and faster you discharge a battery, the 1) less juice you get > > out of it before it needs recharging and 2) the fewer cycles you get > > before it needs replacing. > > One thing to ad

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-06 Thread Max Hyre
Paul Johnson wrote: > Any battery loses capacity over time, though you can reduce these effects > through proper care. For more than you can possibly want to know about batteries, check out http://www.buchmann.ca/toc.asp (Registration requested, but not required.) -- Best wishes

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > fax, printer & copier should *never* be run from battery. They draw > an *enormous* amount of power. CRTs are in the same boat. Don't > know about LCDs. Turning the LCD off makes a whopping 0.1 minute difference for me using apcaccess to read off time remaining. -- To

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > The deeper and faster you discharge a battery, the 1) less juice you get > out of it before it needs recharging and 2) the fewer cycles you get > before it needs replacing. One thing to add, and note that this *only* applies to improperly charged NiCd battery: Yo

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The home site is: http://www.apcupsd.com/ > > They have a very active mailing list. Also available at nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.apcupsd.user for your reduced-SMTP-load and back-reading convenience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
J.A. de Vries wrote: > After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an APC Smart-UPS 750 > or a MGE Evolution 850. As far as I know APC is the "big brand" and it > certainly is the one that is the easiest to get around here. Their > Powerchute software seems to support Linux as well. No wor

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 15:15, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:49:47PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/04/07 07:59, Colin wrote: J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, Due to power outages at my home I want

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 15:15, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:49:47PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/04/07 07:59, Colin wrote: J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > Due to power outages at my home I

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:49:47PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 02/04/07 07:59, Colin wrote: > >>J.A. de Vries wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. > >>>For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 07:59, Colin wrote: J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like to have auto shutdown and

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 07:59, Colin wrote: > J.A. de Vries wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. >> For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like >> to have auto shutdown and poweru

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:26:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. > For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like > to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too. > >

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Colin
J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. > For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like > to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too. > > After some Googling I am thinking of buyin

Re: What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too. After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an

What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too. After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an APC Smart-UPS 750 or a