Re: [MLUG] [OT] UPS battery replacements... local? overnight?

[Dale Noll <dnoll AT wi.rr.com>]

I have used several models of APC brand at home and work with good 
success. Plan on replacing the battery every 5 years, or less if you 
have a lot of interruptions. I have a couple of other cheap brands at 
home and they work OK.

I have used NUT to talk to the APC brand but could not get it to talk to 
the others. I have not tried a recent version lately. It would pay to 
check the NUT support for a potential unit.

That reminds me, I should check the date on my batteries...

Dale


Justin Purdy wrote:
> Speaking of UPS'es...
>
> I've been interested in picking up a UPS for my home for a while now.
> Seems like more and more often I've been having power fluctuations,
> and I'm just waiting to come home to a corrupted box. Does anybody
> have any recommendation for this? I've heard a lot about APC, and I
> know they released their PowerChute software for Linux, but I'm
> wondering if anybody has any recommendations over APC.
>
> Additionally, I'd like to set it up so that when the power comes back
> on after an outage long enough that my box has to shut down, my
> machine will boot itself again - I run a webserver on there, so the
> more it's up, the better. This isn't the same as the BIOS "boot on
> power restore" function, I don't think - but I could be wrong. Any
> tips on that?