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 "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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