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I've only had the unit for a month, so its hard to say how it'll wear over time, but it performs quite nicely out of the box.
The published weight is accurate but you just have no idea how much weight they can pack into a relatively small package. Be aware the unit is insanely heavy. Great unit. I have a bit of an excessive networking setup by most people's standards, and have a 19 inch rack for my equipment. The Cyberpower CPS1500AVR fit perfectly, and keeps all my equipment running smoothly through the (thankfully) rare power outages in North Metro Denver.
You need another UPS for your speakers(for gaming/movies/music the like) it also does not filter out radio signals from sub par wiring, my speakers still get them, use a home theater system for that. Also, this isn't a theater system backup, it is for your processor/monitor alone for computing purpose, not a plasma entertainmanet system. What is does do is make it safe to leave your PC when it's storming or a brown outtage(as in my "moordrek" of a city suburb) This is a solid(and lasting) system for your PC/monitor/modem. If you use periferials it can take the heat but it isn't recommended.
It has worked perfectly.The load indicator is nice. This would make me wonder if it was hot swappable.
So I wanted to remove the batteries so it would not be so heavy to fit into the rack. (In my case I needed to relocate the unit in the rack by myself.
I got one of these about 3 months ago. Certainly made me shut it down before removing the batteries.
Since I was moving servers around I could shut them down too without issue). Put it in my rack.
It goes to full at 85% capacity, which is probably a good thing (to prevent you from looking only at it and adding more equipment).The software offers a logging feature, which is nice (no graph, though I suppose you could save it to a text file, and import it into a spreadsheet if you want).Only drawback is that, when you open the battery door to change the batteries there is a warning that the battery circuit is not isolated from the AC, and could be hot.
For me being rack mountable was a big deal as well so this was the perfect fit. I had a problem with one of them after an electrical storm and it was replaced within the week for free (I did have to pay to ship the old one back though). It is on the expensive side (thus 4 starts) in my opinion compared to desktop versions that do the same thing, but aside from that I'm happy. I own 4 of these and find that they are rock solid. I use 2 of them to support a 10K Raid HD system and the other two on tower computers.
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