Re: Question about UPS.

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

Thanks, I will check it out.

Ken

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:15, Jack Browning wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Ken Keefe wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have a suggestion for a good UPS that I can get for under
> > 100 bucks? Its for an Athlon 2000XP box, so it needs to support a pretty
> > substantial amount of wattage. I'd like something that could give me
> > 5-10 minutes of uptime, if possible.
> 
> I've been using an APC BackUPS 500 ES on my Athlon box for a while now. I 
> think I got it for under $50 (after rebate). I use apcupsd to monitor it, 
> and everything seems to work just fine. With the computer and a 15" CRT 
> plugged into the UPS I get 7.4 minutes of uptime, which is plenty for a 
> transient power failure. apcupsd automatically shuts down the computer 
> when battery time goes below 3 minutes.
> 
> HTH,
> JEB


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