[PLUG] cheap UPSes

[Anthony Schlemmer]

It's nice that APC includes the signaling cable with the 500VA units 
now. I purchased one of these units a few years back and I had to make 
my own cable since APC wanted something like $40.00 for a signaling 
cable. I built two signaling cables with $0.99 worth of parts from a 
second-hand electronic parts store using the Linux UPS HOWTO. I also 
rolled my own monitoring software using the example "backupsd" 
monitoring daemon from the HOWTO as well. 

I did purchase a SmartUPS 700 last year for a system and it included 
both the cable and a PowerChute software CD that had a version for 
Linux among other supported operating systems.

Tony

On Saturday 01 June 2002 06:58 am, mikeraz at patch.com wrote:
> Office Depot has an APC 500VA model for $50 which also
> has a $15 rebate.  3 battery backed outlets, phone line
> protection, and serial port w/cable for monitoring.
>
> When you check out they print you a "rebate receipt"
> to mail in for the cash.
>
> This only provides about 10 minutes of backup time.

-- 
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com