I got a giant UPS to run my sump pump in the basement when the power
goes out. Since it was there I also hooked up my cable modem, wireless
router and VOIP service. I can hardly remember needing to reset those
things afterwards. Previously every month or so I'd have to power cycle
them as one box or another would hang. Apparently they must be very
sensitive to burps in commercial power. To save some cost I bought my
APC unit from
http://www.refurbups.com/
I think the cost was about half a new unit and had brand new batteries.
I've also gone through them to get new battery sets for my other UPSes.
Note that a good sized UPS can take a lot of power. Not so much all the
time but after an outage it has to draw enough power to recharge its
batteries and run whatever you've plugged into it. In my case since I
was running a small motor I got a 3000 Volt Amp unit which required
running a separate 30 Amp 120v circuit.
CB
Scott Howell wrote:
I have a ups on every machine in the house. Reason being is I'd rather
spend the little bit of money for piece of mind. They offer the
ability to shut the machine down which might just save you data loss
and I know from experience what a drag that can be. Now, I use APC and
most all APC models I'm aware of will work fine without the optional
software. Just plug them into the usb port and the Mac will quietly
recognize and work with it. you'll know it's detected as you'lll get
some other options in Energy preferences as well as if you pull the
plug on the ups, you'll get a message from the Mac about the loss of
ac power.
On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Hi everyone!
I've heard of people using these devices with Mac's and it makes
sense so here's the question, will the Mac automatically detect the
UPS when its plugged in? If anyone is using one of these with your
Mac then what experience have you had with the device, did you get a
particular model because of your Mac and software compatibility
issues, assuming of course that software of some description is used
with these things.
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