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Choosing an UPS

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devin_m

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I need assistance choosing an 3000VA UPS, I have a couple in mind the models are below:

Cyber power PR3000LCDRTXL2U
APC SMX3000RMLV2U
I would tend to default to APC because of the name but it is 40% more expensive and the Cyber Power has a much higher surge rating ~500 vs ~2000. Any assistance would be appreciated.
 
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Picture this: it is the day after a huge storm.

You drive up to an office and there is a power pole split down the middle with the top blown off and a transformer with scorch marks and a huge hole in it near the building.

Direct lightning hit on the pole 30 feet from your clients server.



You grab a flashlight and go in.

There is water in the basement at the bottom of the stairs, the surge blew the sump pump.

You look into the electrical room and see melted circuit breakers and a scorched and partial melted pbs system on a brand T ups also melted.



Expecting the worst you go into the server area.

The APC smart-ups smells like smoke and has burn marks on the back.

It is toast.

Expecting the worse you take the server back to the office.

You plug it in and it powers right up and boots into windows.

You take it to the office they rented until theirs are fixed then go to comp-usa and buy them 5 PCs(the insurance company wouldn't let us pull the workstations, as I remember it 5 out of 25 were still good and they were on apc surge strips and were off at the time the of the hit the rest were on brand B surge strips) to get them back up and running.

They close on a multi-million dollar deal the next day.

Everyone elses servers in the building are dead some were on none but most were on other brands of ups.

The copiers and plotters which were on power conditioners are all dead.



That is why I will buy only APC Smart-UPS for servers.
True story......
 
stormy1 said:
Picture this: it is the day after a huge storm.

You drive up to an office and there is a power pole split down the middle with the top blown off and a transformer with scorch marks and a huge hole in it near the building.

Direct lightning hit on the pole 30 feet from your clients server.



You grab a flashlight and go in.

There is water in the basement at the bottom of the stairs, the surge blew the sump pump.

You look into the electrical room and see melted circuit breakers and a scorched and partial melted pbs system on a brand T ups also melted.



Expecting the worst you go into the server area.

The APC smart-ups smells like smoke and has burn marks on the back.

It is toast.

Expecting the worse you take the server back to the office.

You plug it in and it powers right up and boots into windows.

You take it to the office they rented until theirs are fixed then go to comp-usa and buy them 5 PCs(the insurance company wouldn't let us pull the workstations, as I remember it 5 out of 25 were still good and they were on apc surge strips and were off at the time the of the hit the rest were on brand B surge strips) to get them back up and running.

They close on a multi-million dollar deal the next day.

Everyone elses servers in the building are dead some were on none but most were on other brands of ups.

The copiers and plotters which were on power conditioners are all dead.



That is why I will buy only APC Smart-UPS for servers.
True story......
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Wow...they need to make all of that into a commercial for APC and give you some incentive!
 
It's not even a choice man, the APC Smart UPS series are absolutely amazing. I'm running a 15 year old Smart UPS 2200VA that hasn't had the batteries changed since 2003. I have one power outage every couple weeks and it keeps my entire projector home theater system, WHS, HTPC, and two table lamps running for hours (depending on what's turned on at the time). It just works, and keeps working. Period.
 
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Cyberpower isn't bad at all, but again every company makes good and bad models/products. Though I am currently happy with my Tripplite 2200VA ups that was ordered by mistake at work and is thus sitting happily powering my computer at home :)
 
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