Customer Reviews:
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 CEO August 21, 2010
Matt R. Intihar (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Reliability, display of parameters, battery multi-sourcing, and simplicity in changing the battery.
We have APC UPS hardware dating back 10 years that are still in service.
Rural Requirement August 1, 2010
Oculus (ME USA)
With thousands of dollars of computer equipment and terabytes of photos, video, music, and personal data at stake, I trust my APC UPS to safeguard my equipment from the ravages of rural power. Though my in-house wiring has been updated, we still see occasional brownouts and random blackouts that can last fifteen minutes. This UPS gives me 22 minutes in runtime with two computers on it (hoping to change out a system and clear the half-hour mark soon). The LCD panel tells me everything about my current consumption, it even lets me calculate my computer energy costs.
Works well, recommended August 1, 2010
Dektron
The APC BR1500 LCD is working well.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks and don't have any problem with it.
It's silent when AC power is on, the cooling fans only start when the power fails.
The LCD display showing the supply voltage is a nice feature.
 Decent Backup UPS. Went back and bought a second July 29, 2010
Wilson Cheung (Claymont, DE)
What I like about this unit is that it gives me peace of mind. On a Mac Mini with a 23" monitor it'll give you enough power to last over an hour.
The big plus about this unit is that you can put it in a mode where all it's alarms are silenced. So this is great for home use where you'd like to be able to sleep when there's a power failure.
After a few months with it, I decided to buy a 2nd unit for my 2nd Mac Mini. I'm very happy knowing my wife won't complain about beeping noises waking everyone up, and also knowing that our telephone, which works off VOIP on one of the Mac Mini's will work even thru a lengthy power failure.
The only downside of the product is at times figuring out how it works. For example figuring out how to turn one on and off is not always obvious. Do you tap the power button? do you hold it down for several seconds? Do you unplug from AC before hitting power to get it to turn off? After some fiddling you eventually figure out and quickly forget. However, I'm not going to complain because this is a characteristic of almost all UPS products out there.
The unit has settings to alter sensitivity, but I was already having some difficulty figuring out initially how to silence the alarms. You see once you think you disable the alarms you might have to pull the AC cord to verify that you really did disable the alarms. A bit of a pain initially, but once you get everything set right just forget about the unit and know that it'll do it's job and you'll probably never have to touch the unit until either the batteries wear out or you have to move the computer.
The unit comes with software for the Mac, that you can install but I just used the Mac's built in software to work with the UPS. With the UPS hooked up to the Macs USB port, the Mac sort of behaves like it's a laptop showing you the battery status in a little icon on the top right of the screen.
Excellent product June 8, 2010
Brian The Big Dog (Wauconda, IL)
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I've been using and recommending APC products for 20+ years. I've never been let down by the quality and durability of their products. I have COMPLETE confidence that my equipment will be protected so long as it's protected by an APC product.
BTW It's cheap insurance.
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