[CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

Mon Feb 2 13:53:19 UTC 2009
Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

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>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of
>Les Mikesell
>Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:35 PM
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>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>
>> Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? APC is
>> apparantely not an option as they suck bigtime IMO, so what's? Powerware and
>> APC are the two biggest and most wellknown UPS-manufacturers I know of.
>
>APC does make a full line of units.  Perhaps you aren't buying the right
>ones if they aren't serving you well.

I've been buying from the Smart-UPS and Back-UPS range. Those should be ok, 
shouldn't they? All in all about a handfull of them. They're quite pricey... 90% 
of them suffered some kind of a circuit board failure. Not what you'd usually 
expect from a UPS, rather you'd expect the battery to give up first. I bought 
them over a few years, so it shouldn't be a bad batch or something like that.

To APC's honour, I must say their support helped me quite a bit to get this 
working by sending me new cables to test with and at one occasion two brand new 
batteries free of charge. Unfortunately that didn't help...

I wasn't too happy with the experience anyway, so I tried Eatons Powerware's 
5xxx-series, which has worked w/o hitches ever since.

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