Re: UPS

[Jameson Burt <jameson@mnsinc.com>]

I concur that Best Power's products; eg, the Fortress that I also use, have a 
well deserved reputation.  While the inexpensive Fortress models may not still 
have all the push buttons they did a year ago; when the lights got bright 
here, the firemen came to put out an electrical fire next door, no one had a 
clue.  The firemen just saw another fire, my neighboring computer users just 
saw entertainment, but my Best UPS was beeping madly, and after 70 minutes I 
didn't even wait for the Best software to send my computer a shutdown command. 
 My best computer showed an incoming voltage of 141 volts, though it showed an 
outgoing voltage of 118 volts.  With dozens of people standing around, only 
this owner of a best power supply knew that the electrical fire originated 
from a voltage jump.

The Best Power company also got a very good plug in the most referred to unix 
administrator's book,  Unix Administrator's Guide (?) by Nemi (?), et al.

> On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote:
> 
> > Is a UPS good protection or is it "fluff"?
> 
> It's well worth it. My UPS has saved my system at least four times in the
> past year.
> 
> > Are there any Linux UPS resources out there other than the HOWTO ? I'd 
> > like to find out which models have "intelligent" UPS features working 
> > with Linux, and which models ship with prefabricated RS-232 cables for 
> > Linux.
> 
> I recommend Best Power's products (I use their "intelligent" Fortress model
> on my single-user sytem), see a recent copy of the UPS HOWTO. They are a
> little more expensive than, say, APC, but my impression is that the hardware
> is superior; better yet, they openly support GNU/Linux, and include the
> source to the accompanying software (which is easy to install). And a cable
> is included.


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Jim Burt, NJ9L,		Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely 
valid human experience."      --William James, Varieties of Religious 
Experience



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