APC Smart-UPS SMX1500RM2U X 1200W/1500VA LCD 120V 2U/Tower UPS System (Electronics)

I was getting frequent 5-10 second brown outs in my community and it was causing havoc with my mirrored RAID disk array when my PC would loose power; would take 3 hours to rebuild and verify data integrity. My PC has a newer Active PFC power supply and would not work with my older UPS which did not output a pure sine wave. I also usually have one or two other dedicated servers I use for software development.Did some research and settled on this APC UPS. The UPS has worked flawlessly. Keeping all my expensive servers online during the brown outs and saving a ton of time from the RAID verify/rebuilds that I was suffering from.This unit comes out of the box setup as a rack mountable UPS, but the conversion to stand-up tower mode is very easy to do. Just be aware that this thing is REAL heavy and requires you to flip it around a bit to do the conversion. I ended up with a couple of bruises from resting the unit on my legs. No special power outlets are...Read more

Seems very temperamental. Has been running for 3 days now but with problems.The manual is laughable. I got more documentation when I purchased a twenty nine dollar toaster. Online " user forums"and "knowledge bases " are not so helpful.Case in point: It was having a great deal of difficulty with a condition it diagnosed as "distorted power". An explanation of whatit considers as distorted is non existent and the help logic is circular. If you look at the manual either that came with it or the pdfit says to check the knowledge base and the knowledge base says to check the manual. Would be funny if it was not happening to me.I emailed support and got a passive aggressive reply from someone that did not seem to know anything about the unit. The output voltage tracks the input voltage. i.e. if input is 123.5 V the output is 123.5 V. There is a place in the software to select output. When I asked how to...Read more