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Preferred Battery Backup and Surge Protection?

Post Date: 2010-03-12
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rholyrag View Drop Down
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    Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 7:29pm
What do the members here use for battery backup and surge protection, and why?  If you don't use any, put none and why.
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battery backups are nice. I have a couple APC 1500's for my little PC's but they fail to run the bigger ones. lol I have tried some bigger backups, but did not find one I was happy with.
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I use an APC surge protector that has both cable and rj-45 protection and have installed a cutler hammer surge protector that goes right at the breaker box (closer to earth ground) because of a members advice here: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=9019&KW=cutler+hammer.

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Thank you justin and Andy for your thoughts.  I also thank you Andy for the link to the other thread.  I missed it when I was searching for this topic.
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I use an APC 1500VA with an LCD that can support a wattage load of 865 Watts.I also have a small surge protector strip for anything that isn't completely vital if the power should ever black out, like my second monitor and printer, and I have ethernet/RJ45 hooked up to the APC 1500VA LCD. In addition, I always have an extra plug available and hanging out by an extension on the APC 1500VA LCD.

The reason I use it is that if something bad ever happens like a brownout or blackout, my rig won't instantly shut off and possibly cause really bad corruption to the files. I have backups, sure, but those are USB powered and would thus go out with my computer too.
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