At 00:53 03/11/08, JRS wrote:
I use a 1200 watt APC Smart UPS for my computer gear. True sine wave
output. :)
Three computers here (each with 10 internal SCSI drives)...three APC
SmartUPS 1500 (computer, external drives, monitor for each UPS).
Plus one SmartUPS 1000 for the little stuff: two routers, two switches,
a printer server, and my wireless phone system's base station.
(The SmartUPS 1000 started out on one of the aforementioned computers
but I noticed one day that adding a measly thumb drive to one of the
computers overloaded the 1000 VA UPS, setting off its alarm.)
There's a vertical set of 5 lights on each of these SmartUPS models
that indicates % of max load. The SmartUPS 1000 shows no lights lit.
Each of the SmartUPS 1500 shows 2 lights lit. (The SmartUPS 1000
showed 5 lights lit when it was on a computer.)
I've replaced the batteries on each of these UPS at least once. I
get about three years on each set (two internal batteries in each)
of batteries.
Regards,
Bill
