[SunRescue] Question #1 -- UPS Choice for Sun...

[Nick Brisebois]

A 1k would do nicely.  The bigger you buy the longer it'll last.  If you
really care about runtime consider an XL, because you can add battery packs
to it (reasonably priced even).  The difference between the backups, bup
pro and smart ups is level of smarts.  The backups is Stupid, it can tell
if it's getting power, and if it's battery is "low", that's about it.  The
smartups can tell just about everything, line voltage, batt voltage, batt
%, etc etc.  The backups pro is somewhere in between.  If you intend to set
up monitoring get a pro or smart, if not get a backups.  APC's are
expensive, but i've had very good luck with them.
my 2c
	Nick
At 11:51 PM 3/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>My UPS is going south...bad batteries...it's an APC, so I 
>know that I can upgrade/trade it in, but I was wondering where 
>I can find wattage info so I'll have a better idea which 
>model to choose (the APC chooser is just too damn 
>stupid...always suggest BackUPS 1000, BackUPS Pro 1000, 
>SmartUPS 1000, regardless of what settings I seem to feed 
>it...)  I got this Powercel orginally as a Christmas
>Present (my parents have always gotten me useful computer
>stuff for gifts...) so it wasn't specifically spec'ed 
>for my machine load or anything.  Basically, I've got 
>an SS10, external 4mm & external CD (same chassis)
>and a 20in monitor.  I looked on the back of the monitor
>and didn't see any load info, nor did I see anything on
>the SS10.  I suspect James has this info right on the
>top of his head...8-)
>
>Earl
>
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