APC BACK-UPS RS BR1500LCD 1500VA/865W UPS System by APC
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Digital camera reviews of APC BACK-UPS RS BR1500LCD 1500VA/865W UPS System
Digital camera Review: Broken out of the box
Summary: 1 Stars
Didn't work right out of the box. Unit would always run on battery & not recognize being plugged into the wall. Asian tech support woman(polite, but very hard to understand) was worthless and ran me through the exact same troubleshooting guide that came in the package. Had to argue with them for an hour in order to get them to send me a new unit and, surprise, surprise, they send me a refurbished unit! So I bought a new item from Amazon and three days later had an old, previously broken one. Guess I should have sent my broken one back to Amazon instead of the company. Oh, but the original box did have the print-out from the tech who tested the battery before it left their warehouse. Shame they didn't test the battery when it was in the actual unit. Based on this experience, and the poor tech support, I would not buy again. There are other name brands out there to try.Digital camera Review: CEO
Summary: 5 Stars
Reliability, display of parameters, battery multi-sourcing, and simplicity in changing the battery.
We have APC UPS hardware dating back 10 years that are still in service.
Digital camera Review: Check compatibility before buying
Summary: 3 Stars
This UPS uses delivers a step approximated sine wave on battery mode, but computers such as Dell Studio XPS 9000, have an active PFC load, which means it needs a pure sine wave for successful operation. In this case, a BRxx00LCD UPS simply will not work. You need a higher end APC SmartUPS series (SMT750, SMT1000 or SMX1000).Digital camera Review: Clean power, great price.
Summary: 5 Stars
Love my BR1500. I bought a Samsung 52" HDTV, and Onkyo 806 receiver. My home is 80 years old, and we have occasionally-noticeable current fluctuations. Having invested $2500 in a TV/Receiver, I felt a good UPS that would also condition the incoming power and remove noise was a no-brainer. Rather than drop $300-$400 on a Monster brand unit, I looked to APC for a solution. Already have 2 APC tower units protecting PC's and other gear in our 2 home offices and they have been great. This is a good unit for a home-theater setup. It's not petite, but the gray case and discreet display fit right in with the rest of the gear.Digital camera Review: Decent Backup UPS. Went back and bought a second
Summary: 4 Stars
What I like about this unit is that it gives me peace of mind. On a Mac Mini with a 23" monitor it'll give you enough power to last over an hour.
The big plus about this unit is that you can put it in a mode where all it's alarms are silenced. So this is great for home use where you'd like to be able to sleep when there's a power failure.
After a few months with it, I decided to buy a 2nd unit for my 2nd Mac Mini. I'm very happy knowing my wife won't complain about beeping noises waking everyone up, and also knowing that our telephone, which works off VOIP on one of the Mac Mini's will work even thru a lengthy power failure.
The only downside of the product is at times figuring out how it works. For example figuring out how to turn one on and off is not always obvious. Do you tap the power button? do you hold it down for several seconds? Do you unplug from AC before hitting power to get it to turn off? After some fiddling you eventually figure out and quickly forget. However, I'm not going to complain because this is a characteristic of almost all UPS products out there.
The unit has settings to alter sensitivity, but I was already having some difficulty figuring out initially how to silence the alarms. You see once you think you disable the alarms you might have to pull the AC cord to verify that you really did disable the alarms. A bit of a pain initially, but once you get everything set right just forget about the unit and know that it'll do it's job and you'll probably never have to touch the unit until either the batteries wear out or you have to move the computer.
The unit comes with software for the Mac, that you can install but I just used the Mac's built in software to work with the UPS. With the UPS hooked up to the Macs USB port, the Mac sort of behaves like it's a laptop showing you the battery status in a little icon on the top right of the screen.