[143763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Tue Aug 16 21:39:47 2011
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:39:05 -0700
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Mail-Followup-To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E4AEC65.5020900@knownelement.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In a message written on Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:17:09PM -0500, Charles N Wy=
ble wrote:
> What kind of UPS? Seems most here prefer APC. Perhaps that's a topic for
> another thread...
If you want products available at the local big box retailer APC
is pretty much the only quality choice. If you're willing to go
to more effort to get one there are better choices.
All the actual EE's I know are most impressed with the PowerWare
(now Eaton Power) designs. For insance their 5110 is a line-interactive
design built with quality components. The last I looked APC did
not have a line-interactive design in this price range; they were
all the "standby" design. Eaton does have some cheaper standby
units, I can't make any comment about them.
With any UPS the key is replacing the batteries at the appropriate
time. Most batteries are rated for 3-5 years. If conditions are
right, you might be able to push that to 6 or so. If your battery
is older than that, replace it or you might as well not have a UPS.
--=20
Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD)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=XBmW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--
