It all depends on what you want the UPS to do and protect you against.
It also depends on how/if you want to monitor it.
It ALSO depends if you want to be able to switch your equipment back onto utility feed to do work on the UPS.

I know there are people around who considered all these things and decided that it was worth the risk to just run utility power.

There are some people around who specialise in this sort of work. I'll send you some names off list.

Dean

Leon Strong wrote:

Hey Noggers,

We're in a position where we're going to require a UPS at one of our pop's, and being that i've personally never actually had to buy/provision any UPS gear before, i thought i'd put the question out there, what UPS gear have people here in NZ generally found to be pretty good? is the cost of these units going to bite me hard? is there anyone specialized that should perhaps talk to? (APC comes to mind?)

The loading on it should be pretty minimal, (couple switches, a gateway box, possibly a server).

Would appreciate some feedback :-)
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