Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:55:19PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I would like to protect from sparks and temporary power failures my
> (continuous) computational work on a workstation (still to be built because
> of the difficulty of getting mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895SA3NRF). We already
> have two dual amd6a opterons, driven by amd64 debian.
>
> I have been offered in my country (Italy) APC (American Power Conversion) APC
> BACK-UPS RS 800VA (at a price 219 euros, more than twice the price in USA
> 120$). The price difference is standard here. It does not reflect the
> difference of taxation in the two countries, importation duties, and shipping
> expenses. And, from the long delay in having the mainboard delivered from the
> official dealer here, could it be that someone is waiting for the importation
> price to go down, after having fixed the price with the client? At any event,
> I am reiterating that with debian we have not solved our "dependencies" in
> toto.
>
> My main concern is about functionality with the OS i intend to use. I came
> across
> to /www.pricegrabber.com/rating_getprodrev.php/product_id=1369992/id_type=M
> which is not very encouraging (particularly as it probably refers to 32 not
> 64), as follows:
>
> Has anyone experience with this (or other equipment to the same purpose) for
> the type on installation of my project?
I just use apcupsd which works great for me. I can't imagine powerchute
would be an improvement. Works with all versions of linux and most
other unixes as far as I know.
Len Sorensen
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