14 Jul
2024
14 Jul
'24
7:24 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:15:33 -0400
Felix Miata via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
William Morder composed on 2024-07-14 09:45
(UTC-0700):
For what it's worth, I think APC was also the brand of the UPS that, sometime
before the pandemic, caused the first people to arrive at my employer's offices
one Monday morning to find the building filled with smoke. (We never did
find out exactly why—I think it was left in the back parking lot until it stopped
smoking, then junked.) So maybe be careful of those.
E. Liddell
If you or anybody else could recommend some good
UPS for backups of my
machines, that would be a great help. I used to have one back in the days of
desktop computers (and I do still have a desktop, in storage), but now with
laptops and tablets and smartphones trying to take over the world, the power
backup solutions are getting hard to find. Or maybe things are just changing
too fast, and I am too old and slow to catch on.
Based on the catalog listings of UPS replacement batteries, UPS model numbers must
change at least every month, if not every week. Tripp-Lite made the last two I
bought for computer use, 1500VA each, which are still working, while most recent
is an APC 450VA for bedroom TV & Roku. Last to die here was an Eaton. Most to die
here in last two decades have been APC. Florida is hard on them.
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