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Just had a PFC capable APC UPS fail on me. Not that it necessarily means anything. UPS's do fail, that's all.
by sgt 5y ago
Just had a PFC capable APC UPS fail on me. Not that it necessarily means anything. UPS's do fail, that's all.
- kube-system 5y agoI had a UPS fail last week, but I have two of them and my servers have dual PSUs plugged into each one. I don’t really need the uptime, but I’m mostly glad I was able to finally justify my unnecessarily high power bill to myself. :)
- namecheapTA 5y agoHow does a UPS cause a high power bill? Doesn't it just charge up the batteries once and basically maintain after that?
- kube-system 5y agoThe high power bill is due to using enterprise rack mount hardware with dual PSUs, instead of consumer hardware.
- geerlingguy 5y ago"Idle" is often measured in the hundreds of watts on enterprise/DC gear. Newer stuff is sometimes a little better about ramping down at idle, but heck, some server fans will use more power than either of my desktop computers at idle.
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- neilv 5y agoThe two APC SMX1500RM2U rackmount units that I had at home seemed built very well. (Currently have two Cyberpower rackmount units, which don't need as much rack depth in my living room, but I kinda expect something industrial-sounding like AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION to be more reliable than cheesy-sounding CYBERpower. :)
- zargon 5y agoI used to swear by APC but they have really gone down hill in the last decade. The first rule of a UPS should be, don't burn down the house. So when buying a new unit this year I went with the brand whose consumer PFC-compatible model didn't have several reviews about it catching fire: Cyberpower.