I just ordered one of these to go with my Open Media Vault server.
Has good reviews.
Delivery time is 1 month however it looks to be much cheeper than everywhere else. I am in no rush for it so I was willing to wait.
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mikedigitales
17 Jan 175#2
Standard price for this one really, been this on Amazon for 6 months or so according to the camels - plus I'd aim for a true sinewave not a stepped one if I was buying - you can get refurbed APC Smart-UPS unit for this sort of money with new batteries on eBay for anyone looking to for a good unit.
mrwhitelabel
18 Jan 175#7
I use a ups on my CCTV DVR
Want 24/7 power even if power cut. I've got router hooked up to it to so that stays active so alarm can notify via LAN if power cut. if phone line cut also then it's screwed for dialout but will hopefully dial out if they cut power first
qinyanggl
18 Jan 173#9
Isn't it the highest price for this product in the recent months tho?
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MeneerSmith
17 Jan 171#1
I used to have this and it worked fine. Think I paid £80 for it.
Standard price for this one really, been this on Amazon for 6 months or so according to the camels - plus I'd aim for a true sinewave not a stepped one if I was buying - you can get refurbed APC Smart-UPS unit for this sort of money with new batteries on eBay for anyone looking to for a good unit.
leedale30 to mikedigitales
18 Jan 17#11
Any links?
MisterHDUK
17 Jan 17#4
you could just get the ones that look like a large multi plug.
smr1
18 Jan 17#5
Does it use usbhid-ups so it can communicate with some NAS boxes?
jasee
18 Jan 172#6
Does anyone need one nowadays? Unless you are running a full microsoft domain with clients and servers (unlikely). Nowadays operating systems simply recover if the power supply fails. Chkdisk may run on startup (MS systems), but full recovery is normal. The only reason for a UPS is to give you time to manually shut down some application or service but what services or applications are there that need this?
And maintaining a UPS is expensive. The batteries need to be replaced regularly. It may give you some protection against brown outs if it is hooked up to all your machines. But that requires a big UPS and (again) is it necessary?
steevieboy4u to jasee
18 Jan 171#12
For small power glitches/failures this is ideal as then there would be no downtime / reboots or possible data losses due to hard drives losing power
mrwhitelabel
18 Jan 175#7
I use a ups on my CCTV DVR
Want 24/7 power even if power cut. I've got router hooked up to it to so that stays active so alarm can notify via LAN if power cut. if phone line cut also then it's screwed for dialout but will hopefully dial out if they cut power first
jasee to mrwhitelabel
18 Jan 17#8
Now that is a good reason! :smiley:
Craigius to mrwhitelabel
18 Jan 17#23
What size one did you buy to the CCTV and the router may do this myself
Sid Harper to mrwhitelabel
20 Jan 17#38
ditto :smiley:
qinyanggl
18 Jan 173#9
Isn't it the highest price for this product in the recent months tho?
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Has good reviews.
Delivery time is 1 month however it looks to be much cheeper than everywhere else. I am in no rush for it so I was willing to wait.
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Want 24/7 power even if power cut. I've got router hooked up to it to so that stays active so alarm can notify via LAN if power cut. if phone line cut also then it's screwed for dialout but will hopefully dial out if they cut power first
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If you dont have a 'kettle lead' setup then this one is more suitable as it has normal plug sockets:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002RXED6A/ref=twister_B00LLFWXLM?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
I have also ordered:
To go stright to the server
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003OSO2Y0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And this one for any other things I might need to power off it in the future.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BTKXXLS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And maintaining a UPS is expensive. The batteries need to be replaced regularly. It may give you some protection against brown outs if it is hooked up to all your machines. But that requires a big UPS and (again) is it necessary?
Want 24/7 power even if power cut. I've got router hooked up to it to so that stays active so alarm can notify via LAN if power cut. if phone line cut also then it's screwed for dialout but will hopefully dial out if they cut power first