APC BACK-UPS RS BR1500LCD 1500VA/865W UPS System
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Customer Review: APC BR1500LCD UPS: works great with mac pro and more
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using this unit for about two months and have had one area wide power outage and also one tripped circuit breaker due to air conditioning in my old building. The unit worked exactly as expected! With out installing any software (the mac OS X recognizes the UPS as soon as you connect the USB cable) the computer was able to shut down automatically when needed, and recognized the APC was providing power. I had time to properly save my sessions and shut them down. I replaced a nice Tripp Lite 1000VA UPS system because I needed more power and I read the reviews on this one which were overall very positive. With the mac pro and a 20" LCD cinema display, I am also running a Pro Tools 003 Rack, a Mackie 1604 mixer, a modem, router, and external hard drive on the APC unit and it handles them all with room to spare. It also conditions the power going to these sensitive components. The LCD screen provides important information and is very easy to read. I highly recommend the APC BR1500LCD for those looking to protect a similar home studio set up.Customer Review: Very Solid Unit
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good unit. The BR1500LCD and the BX1500LCD are identical in every way. The differing model numbers are merely a way for APC to distinguish distribution outlets. Neither the BR1500LCD, listed here, nor the BX1500LCD has the TRIM feature, although they both do have the BOOST feature. Again, both models are identical in every respect.
This is a lot of unit! Potential purchasers may wish to consider if they need this much UPS. I have a Pentium quad core running 4 large hard drives with an Nvidea 8600 GTS card, a 750 watt power supply and a 22 inch LCD monitor connected. My router is also attached as is my back up hard drive. In all, the unit shows I'm pulling a little over 200 watts at computer idle; a much lower draw than I anticipated.
Obviously I have a lot of room to add if necessary, and at idle loads I have about 20 minutes of back up time, but you should consider what your power needs are. Although this unit has a relatively compact physical footprint, it is a powerful unit with a quality build.
Customer Review: expensive, but probably worth it
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this UPS to protect a new server. It comes with the same APC software that has been around for a few years. The software is easy to use and makes it a breeze to configure the UPS (Admittedly, configuration is an optional step, but I recommend taking the 5 minutes to install the software and check it out. If you don't like it, you can always uninstall the software. The UPS will still work just fine.).
The LED displays are refreshingly complete and understandable.
The bottom line on a UPS is that it fills the power gap for under or over voltage conditions. We have not had any major failures in the month since we installed this unit, but on the other hand, we have not had any false-positives either ... (That was a problem with units from about 10 years ago.)
This is a fairly expensive UPS. It would be overkill to put this on a home computer or simple workstation...But for a server or switch or something that has specific voltage limits, this seems to be a good choice.
Customer Review: Great - bought another
Summary: 5 Stars
My Tripp Lite Omni 1000 recently failed after a little over two years so I bought this UPS. So far it works great. The display is really nice. You can program the LCD display to stay on all the time (which is what I did) otherwise it will go off (to save power I think). I get an estimated run time of about 18-20 minutes with about a 25% load (250 watts running three computers (no monitors) and a couple of Ethernet switches). Will post a photo soon and will update this review if anything significant changes my review.
Battery:
* This unit uses APCRBC109 replacement batteries
UPDATE 2008-07-01: Really liking this UPS. So far it's my favorite (and most expensive) off all the UPS's I've ever bought. No problems.
UPDATE 2010-09-23: My original unit is still working great, making sure my servers are dafe and powered up. I just received another unit that I purchased for my software development system.
Customer Review: Rock solid UPS
Summary: 5 Stars
Beyond impressed with the APC Backup-UPS. The LCD display is well worth getting since allows real-time monitoring of UPS state.
I turned off the power and ran the UPS for 15 minutes and noise level is well within reason. After turning power back on UPS recharged in little over one hour from 40% to 100%.
UPS also comes with PowerChute software it maybe 3 years old but has all you need. This APC uses personal version and support old windows OSs, XP, Vista, and Mac OSX 10.3.9 thru 10,4.9. Expect them to release a WIN7 version soon also.
I have the following connected (32" LCD HDTV, Dell E510 Dual Core, DSL Modem, External HDD, 5.1 speaker, and running a game use 80% CPU power). That is 260 watts of the 865 watts possible. We even connected friends new quadcore with new DX11 video card and UPS had power to spare.
If you have a high end PC or Mac it is well worth getting this UPS.