[Nut-upsuser] choosing a UPS (in the United States)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 06:37, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I do a bunch of "kindness of strangers" hosting in my basement and my
> three kVA apc unit died recently.  In looking around, it looked like
> Belkin was a reasonable low-end replacement for a few machines.  Then I
> read this mailing list after I purchased one and was gifted another.  It
> looks like people don't like Belkin.  ;-)

I suggest buying MGE..
2 reasons.
1) They support NUT
2) Their build quality and design seems very good (better than APC).

Ask me again in 6-12 months and I'll tell you if their run times are as 
optimistic as APCs :)

As you might have guessed I don't like APC much - we have had big problems at 
work with poor runtime. Even for supposedly new units the run time was 20%+ 
less than what the web page stated, and it got much worse after a year.

We ship radar systems with radars to a lot of places with really shitty power 
and I definitely don't recommend APC for that sort of thing. That said we 
have a few in places with good power (eg Australia & Europe) and they work 
fine but for places with good power, well.. a UPS isn't a great help :)

That said I haven't used PowerWare or any of those - maybe they're better.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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