( 3 reviews )
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Posted: Mar 7 2009
orI am NOT and employee of either Amazon OR APC. This is a genuine consumer report from a person who hesitates not a second to raise holy hell on bad service and bad, undependable products. My survival depends on this because I am a 70 yr old single Senior living on an extremely limited income during these troubled times... That said, I offer to those with eyes that see, and a reasonably well working brain the following: IF YOU HAVE A COMPUTER, A HDTV, SATELLITE RECEIVER AND A DEDCENT LOW WATAGE LIGHT THEN YOU MUST CONSIDER PURCHASE OF AN UN-INTERUPTABLE POWER SUPPLY. IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS THEN YOU WOULD BE VERY WISE TO PURCHASE THE RELATIVELY LOW COST VERY HIGH TECH APC SUA750XL EXTENDED RUN "SMART-UPS" OFFERED THROUGH AMAZON. This product which I purchased 2/3/09 from CCIX out of Salt Lake City, Utah is not only a "SMART-UPS" that washes voltage 24/7 like doing laundry BUT it delivers a PURE SINE WAVE (constant)to your most prized and needed electronics. I know this because I went through an OK 1800 watt NOMA/Duracell unit I had for 2-3 years BUT was going to cost me over $300. to REPLACE the bateries that finally toasted. I tried not one, but two TRIPPLITE UPS units. Both failed within a week and I can't even get TRIPPLITE to return e mails and they won't even reply. I wasted almost $200. on two worthless pieces of crap and precious time trying to deal with crappy customer service. I went without any UPS for several months due to that companies practice. (so sue me!) . Here is the really good news re the APC unit...you can ADD additional back up batteries to increase your back up down time. That way you can watch satellite hd, dvr movies, PS3 for as long as you have backup reserve. I LUV my APC UPS. If it were a blue eyed blonde, trim, approx age 35-45 with a brain I would propose marriage to her! Hope this helps one and all! GEEZERKATZ
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Posted: Nov 10 2006
Does exactly what it's supposed to do, I've used a lot of APC products for work server farms. This purchase was for home use and it was a great buy for the power. The only downside is the weight, which is quite heafty, but is not a problem unless you have to move it; which isn't very often.
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( 9 of 9 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 19 2003
I own many APC UPSes, from the relatively high end (i.e., like this one) to the relatively 'normal' levels. All seem incredibly well built. Before buying a UPS understand why APC has these various offerings, and try to understand which you might need. I wouldn't want my more critical servers ideally on anything below the Smart UPS series (they tend to have a pure sine wave output, along with a much more tightly regulated output). The Backup Pro series is a minor step down from the Smart UPS, in that it sacrifices pure sine wave output. The Backup series (non-pro) still has a very nicely regulated output, but is not quite as tightly controlled as the Pro series (nor of course does it have pure sine wave output).APC sells serious stuff, at all levels, for very real reasons.
