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APC "Selector" advice was poor
Bought this product along w/ matching auxiliary battery pack BR24BP based on APC's Selector - an online app which asks about your equipment then recommends the products you should consider. The Selector gave me bad advice for my MacPro. I was never able to completely ascertain what the mismatch was about, but threads I found suggested it was either "inrush current" where a waking computer's current needs spike momentarily OR something to do with this APC unit not producing a "sine wave output....
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Repeated Overload Faults When Computer is Asleep
I had one of these for just over a year. i got rid of it because of repeated "overload" faults that were occurring with greater and greater frequency. What would happen is that I'd come back into my office or come home to find the APC UPS screaming away, with no power to my computer (or modem or router). In every case, the red "overload" indicator would be lit.
Where's the Alarm Cut-Off Switch
While this UPS is very powerful to hold up both my PC & Mac systems, there's One BIG problem the engineers didn't think of and that's "No alarm cut off switch!!!" Every now and then my neighborhood loses power, then my UPS kicks in. So normally I check to see if its my circuit breaker or the whole block. If its my circuit breaker I tried to silence the alarm before going to the basement, but found there's No alarm cut off for the APC BR1500..., UN-BELIEVABLE!
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