A silent UPS

[Da Rock]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 17:48 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Da Rock wrote:
> > This may sound like a strange question, but is there a way to mute the
> > voice box of a UPS? I have a highly specialised application for one- I
> > need a mobile desktop pc (very cheap). I need to setup a pc for my
> > little girl so that she has music, video, and visualisations while she's
> > in her cot- which is mobile and moved from room to room. So I don't want
> > to shutdown the pc when in transit, and I certainly don't want any
> > shrieks when I unplug the power...
> > 
> I have run across a couple of UPSs that will let you do this under 
> software control. Unfortunately, the software to do it was Windows 
> only. But you could program the UPS under Windows, and it would keep 
> the settings. Now, if only I could remember the makes/models...

Apparently newer models from APC do- and you're right about the Windows
software. Thanks for the info guys...