CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD Pure Sine Wave 1500VA 900W UPS - $165 shipped @ AMAZON or NEWEGG

I have one of these, and like it a lot, I use it to keep my network gear alive (cable modem, router, ooma phone system, NAS box, and switch). Then one day a few months back, the power went out, it worked great (I silenced the alarm) lasted a couple of hours.

Problem is, if you let the battery run all the way down, it will NOT power anything plugged into it, after the power is restored, until the battery is charged, and it wont charge because it will just keep powering down (completely) until you unplug everything, then turn it back on to let it charge up the batteries.

Kind of a PITA, but it is cheap enough, and works well for short power interruptions.

Thanks OP. I have two smaller APC UPS and have two computers, an NAS, my modem and router plugged in, and yesterday after a surge, they shut down indicating that they were in fact not sufficient for the task on hand. I was pretty pissed when my primary computer shutdown since I was working on a pretty important document. This is prefect timing. Additionally, this is great for my new computer which has an active pfc power supply.

Thanks OP! Picked up 2, one for the home theater and one for my PC.

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been waiting for one of these to go on sale. thanks OP

Got this for $120 two years ago and I love it. It has helped me so much with brownouts, blackouts and other power variation issues. highly recommended!

i got this about 2yrs ago, and love it. for the advanced folks - they have an esxi vm appliance that is literally just plug and play. It can send txt alerts, emails and MSN messages indicating a power outage, low battery and other events.

my load is at about 250 watts , and the estimated runtime is between 15 to 24 minutes. enough for me to shutdown my VMs, and the host if needed. also - you can set the host to auto shutdown the VMs, if you have tools installed.

Would this be significantly better than my current APC BX1300LCD?

I still think Pure Sine Wave is a solution in search of a problem. I'll probably get flamed, but whatever.

I've had numerous blackouts/brown-outs with a ton of computers, mostly Apple stuff, and never had one issue with my Cyberpower UPS without Pure Sine Wave.

Needed one to replace my APC BR1300 that died about a year ago, been waiting for this exact model to go on sale again, thanks so much!

Newcustomer $10 off $50 doesn't work on this item

Quote from bondiablo : Would this be significantly better than my current APC BX1300LCD?

Depends if you have a active PFC Psu in your pc or not. Some psu's don't put out the advertised watts when running on the approximated sine wave that your apc puts out. Just google active pfc and ups for more info.

Quote from a1iens : I've been waiting for this to drop to the lightning deal price of $150 that I missed back in Dec, but went ahead and got it for $15 more since I had some Amazon credits. link [amazon.com] Newegg has it for the same price w/free shipping also, but with code: CMPTUPGRD6 Newegg doesn't show price until final checkout though....not sure why that is. link [newegg.com]

Is there any real advantage to this one over the CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD Intelligent LCD 1500VA 900W with AVR Tower UPS that is about $150 w/FS on Amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...PDKIKX0DER

Quote from cowguy : Depends if you have a active PFC Psu in your pc or not. Some psu's don't put out the advertised watts when running on the approximated sine wave that your apc puts out. Just google active pfc and ups for more info.

Read here [tomshardware.com] for some insight on what Active PFC means to you and why true sine wave UPS's are recommended for the power supplies with them.

Quote from ArcticHighlandr : Is there any real advantage to this one over the CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD Intelligent LCD 1500VA 900W with AVR Tower UPS that is about $150 w/FS on Amazon? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...PDKIKX0DER

The $15 dollar difference here is for the pure sinewave technology and the extra 2 outlets (1 Batt / 1 Non-Batt). Read the above link I posted for why it's recommended and worth the extra $15 bucks.