Belkin F6C550-AVR 550VA Battery Backup with Surge Protection by Belkin Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of Belkin F6C550-AVR 550VA Battery Backup with Surge Protection
Digital camera Review: Not enough power
Summary: 3 Stars
This is partly my fault for not checking, but I was expecting this to be able to handle at least my computer and monitor, which it sadly doesn't. While it's great to have a surge protector it looks like I'll need to buy another one to handle my computer. In general though it's easy to use although I haven't really had a situation where it's really tested. Haven't tried the software that comes with it.Digital camera Review: Not for a Large TV set
Summary: 3 Stars
My Sony TV set which draws 270 watts would not turn on with out
the UPS overloading and shutting down. Once it was working the
test function worked fine and if you turned the TV off for less
than 5 minutes it would start up OK
Digital camera Review: OK, but not great
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had mixed success with this UPS. If I unplug the UPS from
the wall, it switches to battery back-up just fine. However,
there have been several cases when the power flashed off for
a fraction of a second during a storm and the UPS went into
overload, the computer immediately shut down and I lost all
my work. I bought it to handle that latter situation and so it
has not been very useful to me. I e-mailed Belkin tech support
about this and they... well they never responded.
Digital camera Review: Okay
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this Belkin Battery Backup after a power failure disaster was narrowly averted by MS Word's AutoRecovery feature. It's worked fine at warding off power failures since, I haven't really tested how well it does what it's supposed to do.
I do have some comments on usability. My wife finds the necessity to press and hold the power switch for several seconds counter-intuitive.
I would like the non-battery backup outlets to be controlled by the switch so I could shut everything down for power conservation with one step.
Digital camera Review: Perfect for my application
Summary: 5 Stars
Before buying any UPS, do some homework. It's not as simple as reading the watts sticker on your computer. Get to know what volt-amps means and decide if you need lots of battery run time or not. I believe many people end up buying too much UPS capacity (which is fine if you can afford it) because mfgrs' "wizards" are not very accurate. This unit, with its fairly low rating, is fine for my needs:
My requirements are to protect my equipment from surges and sags, to give me enough time to save and shut down when the power fails, and to run my DSL modem and WiFi base station for a few hours off and on during an extended outage (we get hurricanes on Cape Cod). I do not need server-class UPS backup, meaning automated shutdown and lengthy run time.
This unit works great for all of the above. It would not run my iMac G4 for very long beyond an emergency shutdown, but that's fine in my case.
The supplied (and downloadable new versions) of Bulldog software are terrible, however. I did not downgrade the unit's star rating for that because you don't need it.
On my Mac, Bulldog only served to display annoying false warnings and would lose connection with the UPS whenever the computer sleeps. Don't even bother installing it.