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| I've had good luck with Triplites from Costco ($100). APC either dies in a year or lasts forever, randomly. The main thing is, don't plug too much into a single UPS, and plug EVERYTHING into a UPS. It's no good having your workstation stay up if the network switch goes down. The other thing is, test occasionally (just pull them out of the wall) to see what happens. Sometimes a UPS will appear to be functioning but not. A decade ago during a rain storm, a palm frond fell on a 13KV uninsulated line behind our block (Southern California Edison - horrible!). Meter-long flames shot out of the wall sockets for a moment, before the quiet and the dark. Every light bulb and computer in the ground floor shops were reduced to a broken, blasted, smoking ruin. All of our computers were on UPS's and we only lost one item; a Truevision Targa PCI board which apparently lost it's FPGA programming - Truevision had recently gone out of business, so there was no hope of getting it re-flashed. We have a lot of momentary outages, like "ba-dum"; long enough to wink out all the computers and make the lights flicker, and any decent UPS will prevent that. But if all the transformers on your street cascade into a shower of sparks (a few months ago), only a generator will help you work that day :-) Tim Sassoon SFD Santa Monica, CA On May 24, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Michael Hazarian wrote:
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