[115965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MGE UPS Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Jul 13 19:33:07 2009
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:32:20 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CEFA060542D79B4F94F38006778B524C042AF618@servus-exch1.main.root.tac.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
ryan.slater@tac.com wrote:
> Take this with the grain of salt that I do not work for APC, but for a
> sister company. The word that I have heard is that they are in no rush
> to discontinue any of the product line. In fact rumor is that APC was
> very happy to have the MGE products available to them for sale to
> customers. As a side note I have several MGE UPS in service and have
> had zero problem getting support and maintenance from APC for them.
>
Interesting.
The reason I ask is that I'm kind of attracted to the MGE Galaxy and its
paralleling N+1 capability. I had a bad experience with a frame shorting
out a few years ago after it went into bypass but didn't shut off the
inverter output; hilarity ensued. It seems like the Galaxy and Smart VT
overlap, although the Galaxy has better specs on paper. I was also
recommended a Symmetra PX 80kW frame.
I asked my rep and they were kind of ambiguous about the MGE line, hence
my redirect of the question here.
~Seth
