Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Amit Joshi
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to buy an UPS. What should I know and take into account to choose a proper one? Elisej Babenko You may want to buy what fits your budget and still be good on features. I would generally recommend on buying an APC UPS. It

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Derek Ragona
If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in /usr/ports/sysutils. This supports only serial port models in the stable version but supports USB in the experimental version. I use the stable version and have bought Belkin's that

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Nathan Vidican
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to buy an UPS. What should I know and take into account to choose a proper one? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Huff
Derek Ragona writes: If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in /usr/ports/sysutils. This supports only serial port models in the stable version but supports USB in the experimental version. For APC UPSes,

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread jdow
apcupsd rules. Adam is quite responsive (if he's not traveling) with fixes. USB works for most cases. {^_^}Joanne - Original Message - From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread David Robillard
Usually, if you are willing to interface the UPS with your Computer, like it should automatically shutdown the computer when there's a power failure, then you may want to buy one with USB support. But I am not sure that you can interface it with FreeBSD. It can be done with Linux and Windows.

How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-27 Thread a
I am going to buy an UPS. What should I know and take into account to choose a proper one? Elisej Babenko ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL