[Nut-upsuser] What current UPS can I buy?

[Matt Ivie]

On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 23:33 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Matt Ivie wrote:
> 
> > I'm really just looking for a UPS that might run a couple of small
> > servers and other small devices(routers or switches).
> 
> Good call on including the network gear in the power budget. NUT isn't much use to the slave systems if the network connection between master and slave goes down.
> 
> > If I could get
> > 15-30 minutes of runtime from the batts and o course run the automated
> > shutdown and reboot sequence through nut that would be great. The server
> > I'm looking at has a PSU capable of 200W but I don't expect to be maxing
> > out the system capabilities at all. I'll be running either Debian
> > Wheezy(most likely) or Trisquel 6.0 and I'd like to just use the
> > pre-packaged version of NUT rather than building a new package if I can.
> 
> It doesn't look like I can just copy-and-paste the link to the exact result, but if you go to the UPS selector on the Eaton Power Quality page, they will recommend a few models:
> 
>    http://powerquality.eaton.com/
> 
> The NUT HCL spells out Powerware 9130/9140, but the Eaton pages refer to PW9130 and PW9140. Pretty sure they are the same unit with a different name.
> 
> Debian wheezy has NUT 2.6.4, which should cover most of the units that Eaton's selector would recommend.
> 
> You could also go with a Tripplite rack-mount UPS, but a lot of the low-end ones use a proprietary protocol that seems to change between model years. 
> 

What about the Eaton 5S series? Does it go under a different name on the
compatibility list or is it just not compatible?
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Matt Ivie
BT Inc
Information Technology