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APC BR1500LCD 1500VA 865 Watts 8 Outlets BACK-UPS
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| List Price: | $282.73 |
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Product Description
The Back-UPS RS offers high performance protection for your business and office computer systems. It provides abundant battery backup power, allowing you to work through medium and extended length power outages. It also safeguards your equipment from damaging surges and spikes that travel along utility, phone and network lines. A distinguishing feature of the Back-UPS RS is automatic voltage regulation (AVR). AVR instantly adjusts both low and high voltages to safe levels, so you can work indefinitely during brownouts and overvoltage situations, saving the battery for power outages when you need it most. Award-winning shutdown software automatically powers down your computer system in the event of an extended power outage.
Product Details
- Brand: APC
- Model: BR1500LCD
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 18.00" h x 12.00" w x 10.00" l, 31.00 pounds
Features
- Output
- Output Power Capacity - 865 Watts / 1500 VA
- Max Configurable Power - 865 Watts / 1500 VA
- Nominal Output Voltage - 120V
- Output Frequency (sync to mains) - 60 Hz
Customer Reviews
Great unit
Seems to be a pretty solid unit. It has logged 26 "events" in the few weeks since I've had it. I'm not sure all of these were significant enough to interrupt my PC operation, but some of them were.
I think I overbought. I have a MacPro with 3 external hard drives, a Neat Receipts scanner, and two MFC devices hooked up (one laser, one inkjet). It only requires 22% of the power (with both printers in energy saver mode). The software to shutdown is Mac OS X 10.5.5 compatible and seems to work o.k. I haven't pulled the power and waited to see if it would power off the machine in an orderly way, but I assume it works. I will test it some time.
The unit says 24 minutes of run time available if I lost power. Given I'm only using 22% of capacity, this is disappointing; however, practically speaking, this is fine. I mainly wanted to avoid damage, and avoid going down for those constant "blips" that make me reset a bunch of clocks in the house when the power loss lasts only a few seconds or less. And practically speaking, I just want time for an orderly shutdown if I am going to lose power for more than a few minutes.
I might buy a smaller unit if I had to do it over again, but I have no complaints about this unit.
Does what it was designed to do.
I purchased this to prevent data loss during brown-outs and power outages when I'm here using the computer. I tried the system shut-down software, but it hogs huge amounts of CPU time for no reason. There's no way you can game with the system monitor running because it causes long pauses due to heavy CPU usage. I don't need the auto shut-down anyway. Aside from this, the unit does what it says it does.
Good UPS
We bought this item as power backup and to noise filter the line for a large screen LCD TV. We live in Northern New Mexico, second only to Florida to lightning. It worked out of the box and was easy to use. We have lost power twice with it on line and it worked well.
