On 19:06 Sat 03 Jun , Arjen de Korte wrote: > Clay Barnes wrote: > > > I am running a home box (600watt total load, may expand to 800-900) and > > I need a UPS that can sustain power to that for at least 20 min, but > > I want as much time as I can get. > > Is that rated load, or actual load? That seems like an awful lot of Hm... It's the max draw of my combined tower, screen, scanner and printer (it's not laser, I know not to do *that*). I want to be able to use all of them for a short time after a power failure. > power for a single system. And unless you've a very complicated shutdown > procedure, 20 minutes looks like a very long runtime. If you need that I wanted time enough to save what I'm doing, tweak my current documents, etc. and print a substantial document and be able to shut down cleanly. I live in a craphole apt. and I often have time critical (school) assignments. To do. > much runtime, consider if you're not better served by a smaller (in > terms of runtime) capacity UPS backed by a petrol (or diesel) generator > (which will give you hours/days/weeks of runtime, depending on the > amount of fuel in the tank). Hm. Good idea, but I don't have close to the money for that. :-/ > > [...] > > > Generally speaking, what mfrs. and models are very well supported? > > The website has a nice section on that > > http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/ > > It badly needs updating, but if your UPS is listed there, it is Yeah, I got the impression from the list that this was the case with the site. > supported by NUT (check the driver documentation for the level of > support). If you want optimum support, MGE seems to be a good choice > however, since they officially support NUT (through Arnaud Quette). Well, I got all impulsive and bought an APC XS1500, since I have a friend who has an employee discount that should be gone (but isn't yet) which got me it for a solid 45% off. I hope it wasn't a bad call > > > Which should I avoid at all costs? > > The ones not listed in above mentioned lists. > > Regards, Arjen Thanks!
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