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

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]

Thanks - I did manage to get the lightning deal, but I need another one, and I pulled the trigger at Amazon.

Dunno... but it is amazing annoying... and why I'd want to order from Amazon.

Nice... Now to talk myself into needing this much of a UPS.

Would this would be enough for a 64 inch plasma, 5.1 AVR, and a HTPC that uses about 350W by itself? Or would one be better off with a simple power conditioner in this scenario?

It won't help you if the power goes out

I've been wanting one of these for a while, thanks OP.

Probably a power conditioner? Depends. The ability of a UPS to sustain a set of devices on battery power is INVERSELY proportional to how much load you connect to it. If you're approaching 900W, you're not going to have a good time unless you're looking for something to save you from some power flickering.

Mine feeds a TiVo and an LED TV. I really need to test battery life on it. But at least I know that a momentary loss of power isn't going to make me lose 5 minutes of programming while the TiVo slowly reboots itself. But it isn't going to drive the TV and the TiVo for the 30 minutes for me to finish my show.

Good point. Nothing I do on the HTPC is important. I'll probably grab a cheap power conditioner at some point, because I do suspect the wiring of being of dubious quality. It was all done prior to my living there by the homeowner themselves and only about half the outlets in the place are three pronged.

Tempted to still buy one for my main computer, though.

Unless it's for a nice gaming machine or if you have a htpc or home server, you would be fine getting one of the cheaper UPSs without sinewave for most other electronics.

Got this for $150 during Black Friday on Amazon. Highly recommend this!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009RA60

Its like $50. Its better than any $100 power strip, and it will eat itself if the lightning strike is bad enough to kill things. Its also got one tap on it for a transformer isolated outlet incase you have some ground loops or want to plug noisy things like florescent lights into it.

If your home theater gear is expensive, I'd invest in a UPC. The power conditioner can't create power out of thin air. A UPC has a battery to make up for the voltage swings.

The UPS does not make up for the voltage swings by using the battery except when the voltage is TOO low or TOO high and then it's 100% on the battery.

That transformer regulator does raise or lower voltage by switching in and out taps on a transformer.

Debating to get one of these. I have an APC Smart UPS 700 that cooks batteries every 2-3 years, I'm just a little broke right now. Would love a 1350 model for $100'ish.

BTW, the 1350 and up models have 2 qty 12V SLA batteries in them. The 1000 only has one.

Have had the CP1000PFCLCD for 2 years now, good stuff!

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.

In 4 1 after all
Wish Amazon didn't charge tax in CA :(

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 :(

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.

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

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.


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. :nod:

You really don't need PFC compatible UPS's for this scenario. You will do fine with the base AVR type that uses battery power for over/under voltage scenarios.

If you are a Costco member, or know someone, get the Cyberpower AVR 1350 they have for $89.95. It's what I use for the home theater gear, and actually saved me once when recording on the DVR. None of these are for extended outages really, but they do help for short 'blips' that happen more frequently.

Did anyone else's come overnight delivery??

I ordered around 5pm ET on 2/6 and it arrived today! I didn't expect it until Monday. Wohoo...fast delivery by Amazon. Kudos to Amazon!

I just got mine from Newegg. I like not having to connect the battery terminals or do any sort of flipping to make it functional. All I had to do was turn it on while plugged in. I am going to leave it plugged in for 8 hours even though the display shows that it is 100% charged.

How does this model compare to the Cyberpower AVR 1350 for $89 @ CostCo feature wise?

Thanks!

The AVR model uses a modified sinewave output instead of a true sinewave.

I don't know if it is true today vs yester-years but pure sinewave is not as efficient to generate as a modified sinewave so the 2 qty 12V SLA batts in the AVR 1350 may run longer than the ones in the 1500 PFC version with the same load.

A lot of PC's don't care about the quality of the power coming in and modified sinewave (MSW) is fine. Things with transformers will buzz, motors will not run as efficiently, but a switching power supply doesn't care much unless it's one of the newer fancier ones with active (?) power factor correction.

Me - I'm using mine to keep the VOIP box, router, cordless phone base, plus a couple of PC's and monitors running. I'm replacing a APC SmartUPS 700 pure sinewave model that cooks its batteries every 2-3 years.

holy eff. get a new htpc :lol:

Thank you, now to see if my local CostCo has it in stock.