[plug] UPS's

[Bret Busby]

Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> Can anybody recommend a UPS system that's been reliable and useable with
> linux? I've had a look at the APC ones and they come with an opensource
> program that knows when the power is on/off and when battery is low - the
> basics. This is adequate, but can anybody please comment from experience?
> 
> The UPS will run on an Intel Red Hat Linux 6.0 server with one dodgy
> serial port (doesnt like characters above ASCII 94, ie 95 and up...
> bizarre) but that will most likely be replaced soon.
> 

We have a Sola UPS 750/325. It came with Windows and UNIX drivers,
although we have not yet installed any of its software. From memory, it
cost us around $700. We run 4 computers; an AMD K62-300, a 486DX, and
two Cyrix 6x86 sytems, and, two clock-radio's from it (I thnk that is
all that we run from it). We run all the computers off it, due to the
unstable electricity supply in Armadale; both the voltage instability,
and, the supply unreliability. The times that we have had to shut the
computers down, when the power went off, we had about 5 minutes stored
power, with, I think, three computers running. The device both
conditions the electricty supply, and, provides backup power.

The place that we got it, has a website, at http://www.ampelups.com.au/ 
The company, Ampel, is based in the Belmont area. The man there, Peter
Duits, can advise on the capacity, and, most appropriate, of the UPS's.


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Bret Busby

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