UPS

[Daniel A. Graifer]

We've been using a couple of Best UPSs for almost a year now, and they've
saved us numerous times.  A previous poster was correct in questioning the
utility of staying up for long periods while all the terminals and printers
are down.  We do have one PC on the net that runs a critical overnight
job that is protected by it's own little UPS, mostly to keep it up through
minor glitches.  Because we over bought in anticipation of expansion, we
currently have just over 30 minutes of backup.

Best's CheckUps software is supplied in source form (c), so it was easy to
modify to behave exactly as we wanted.  You can (and we do) use the UPS's
ambient temperature alarms as well as the power condition/backup time alarms.

Since the UPS's clock appears to be more accurate than on our computers, I
have considered using it as a time reference as well.

Dan
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