My power went out this evening while I was placing an order with newegg and everything went black.
I sat there for a few seconds scratching my head knowing full well I have a 30lb beast of a UPS sitting on the floor that made no such indication that anyone was home inside the white square box. I thought, wow, I guess I'll have to consider a new UPS now.
Shortly after, the power came back on and I pulled the unit out from behind my desk. It is now awaiting its doom-queue in the rubbish pile. I could simply researching buying it a new battery but in the last year or so I haven't been happy with the plugs in the unit. Sometimes they become a little finicky when I unplug/plug something into it which causes the device to power off if the plug is wiggled a little (that doesn't seem like a good thing).
So, I began looking at some units and I don't know what's good anymore. It's been probably 3 or 4 years since I've bought one. I liked the features of the APC BR1200 unit but I've never heard anything about them. What are you guys currently using (if anything) these days?
I play to run my system and monitor on the unit along with my networking equipment which is nothing more than the cable modem and my 4-port router (and eventually my external USB drive). The 1200VA may be a bit overkill but it would be nice to have some extended run time.
I sat there for a few seconds scratching my head knowing full well I have a 30lb beast of a UPS sitting on the floor that made no such indication that anyone was home inside the white square box. I thought, wow, I guess I'll have to consider a new UPS now.
Shortly after, the power came back on and I pulled the unit out from behind my desk. It is now awaiting its doom-queue in the rubbish pile. I could simply researching buying it a new battery but in the last year or so I haven't been happy with the plugs in the unit. Sometimes they become a little finicky when I unplug/plug something into it which causes the device to power off if the plug is wiggled a little (that doesn't seem like a good thing).
So, I began looking at some units and I don't know what's good anymore. It's been probably 3 or 4 years since I've bought one. I liked the features of the APC BR1200 unit but I've never heard anything about them. What are you guys currently using (if anything) these days?
I play to run my system and monitor on the unit along with my networking equipment which is nothing more than the cable modem and my 4-port router (and eventually my external USB drive). The 1200VA may be a bit overkill but it would be nice to have some extended run time.
j/k
