Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-06-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: Have you looked at Best Power? The Fortress line is very competitive with APC, and comes with software and source code! Onvia.com carries them, and with free shipping and the various $25 coupon codes floating around... You can't

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-22 Thread Cory Snavely
PROTECTED] Cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:30 AM Subject: Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite? Hi Ron, I tried them both. I was happier with Triplite... Tho, it too was returned. I need to leave my box here, some times for days unattended. I have

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-20 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Karl, That is an inverter also - small, square wave and not really suitable for power supplies that are in computers. The square wave can do funny and bad things to some equipment. Caution is advised. Modified is a little better and formed sine wave (stepped) is much cleaner to deal with.

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hi Ron, I tried them both. I was happier with Triplite... Tho, it too was returned. I need to leave my box here, some times for days unattended. I have a huge set of backup batteries that I run all my radio gear from.. I decided there had to be a product that would use MY batteries and not

UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good products (IMHO). Tripplite is

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
Have you looked at Best Power? The Fortress line is very competitive with APC, and comes with software and source code! Onvia.com carries them, and with free shipping and the various $25 coupon codes floating around... You can't beat the price! I bought one on back-order, and it arrived in two

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Basically what everyone seems to be saying is: APC's newer products aren't so good, Tripplite is ok, and Best Power has the best Linux support. Visiting each of these companies sites, I like: Tripplite OMNISMART 700 PNP UPS 120V. APC

RE: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Chris Mason
Mailing List Subject: Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite? Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. Basically what everyone seems to be saying is: APC's newer products aren't so good, Tripplite is ok, and Best Power has the best Linux support. Visiting each of these companies sites, I like

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Jaye == Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaye I tried them both. I was happier with Triplite... Tho, it too was returned. I Jaye need to leave my box here, some times for days unattended. I have a huge Jaye set of backup batteries that I run all my radio gear from.. I

UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-18 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from APC or Tripplite. APC is more expensive, less Linux/UNIX friendly, but makes good products (IMHO). Tripplite is

Re: UPS wars: APC vs Tripplite?

2000-05-18 Thread matthschulz
Last thing i heard is APC distributes a binary for linux. Matth On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello, I've been thinking about getting a new UPS. Previously I purchased APC products, but I want to hear about other experiences. I've pretty much narrowed it down to a product from