UPS for home network

michty_me

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I'm currently looking to get a small UPS for my home network to prevent sudden shutdowns of the equipment.

Has anyone had any experience of the Eaton S3 v2 (700VA most likely) or the APC BACK-UPS 650VA units?
The Eaton has 4 battery back up sockets and 4 surge protected whereas the APC has 8 battery backup sockets.

I'll be powering UDM Pro, 16 port switch, ONT and CCTV NVR.

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Thanks for the feedback folks.
I'm not looking to keep everything powered for a huge amount of time. Even just 20-30 minutes to get everything shutdown safely would be fine with me. I have heard of some of the equipment getting bricked with sudden shutdowns which is the main reason for looking for one. I'm not looking to keep the rack alive for hours. Cheaper and reliable would be ideal.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
None of that will get bricked with a sudden power outage.

What happens if you get a long power cut when you are not at home? UPS runs out and they turn off…

That said, I’m not saying one wouldn’t be handy to keep things up and running for very small minor outages. If you have a home battery with EPS (which may not be fast enough to keep them online when switching over to battery) a small UPS could be handy to keeping everything online while the EPS kicks in.
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That is good to know. I'm probably over thinking it after seeing several posts about bricking after a power outage.
Good point though about not being at home but I have nothing else on any sort of backup locally.
 
I'm not sure to be fair, I had read it does. Saying that, We are only just getting FTTP rolled out this year, I'm currently still on FTTC which I believe the cabinets have a battery backup in. I'm not sure about FTTP though.
 
tangey said:
Storm eroywn killed a lot of power in N.I. most of our side of the town was off for at least a day, our estate of about 60 houses was off for nearly 2 days. Widespread power outages across N.I.

However when I powered the house using my EV, our fibre internet worked fine, which means whatever kit was in place between our house and the exchange 2 miles away did not lose power, nor did anything else between the exchange and further upstream.

Bring the subject back to UPS, one of things to remember with UPS is that whether they kick in or not, the batteries lose a LOT of their storage potential after a few years, so best to get ones that have a facility to change the batteries.
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I believe both the items I mentioned have the capability to have their batteries replaced.
 
Excellent, thanks for the info folks, I'll likely go for the larger model and save that trader for future use.

Balls, the deals have ended and back up in price :cry: . Will await a new deal as they seem to dip in and out.
 
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cyber69 said:
I have one of these protecting my NAS drives, internet router & switch and main PC just in-case it was switched on.

APC by Schneider Electric Back UPS Pro - BR900MI - UPS 900VA​


It's quite small and discrete and saved my NAS drives a few times. In the event of a power cut it's use is to keep the internet up and do an orderly shutdown of the NAS drives when it's power depletes to a certain level.
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Thanks, I shall check that out although the wrong ends, Was looking for normal 3 pin plugs. I'm sure my work will have plenty of the others I can nab.
 
Interesting feedback, that sort of ties in with the general consensus around Reddit and other forums. I think maybe some further investigation is required.
 
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