UPS Suggestions

[jdow]

From: "aaron hirsch" <aaronh at uptime.net>

>> I'm looking to buy a UPS with greater than 90 minute battery life
>> for 3 servers I have. The servers are Athlon XP 2900+ with 2 EIDE
>> drives in each. Nothing else in the boxes.
>> I'm not looking for exact numbers etc, just feedback on experiences
>> with >90 minute UPS. What brands work well for you.
> [aaron hirsch] 

You beat me to it. We have a lot of computers here, for development
work mostly. So we have a pair of Matrix 5000s with three of the
large battery packs each. (That's a total of 12 60AH 12 volt batteries
each UPS.) We run the machine room off the pair of them. (We also
sneaked a few strategic light bulbs in various rooms of the house
as well. I also have my ham station on the UPS.) We got tired of
losing power with the Ca blackouts. In theory we should last out any
ordered blackout or brown out we face. We still tend to shut down
most of the machines in an orderly fashion if it looks like it's not
a formal blackout. Once we do that there is close to 24 hours of power
for the computers. (We REALLY should hook up the fridge to one of
the UPSs and the freezer to the other. But that's only food.)

Yes, I like APC. (Even though the suckers radiate more than they
legally should.)

{^_-}   Joanne