On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:15:33 -0400 Felix Miata via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > William Morder composed on 2024-07-14 09:45 (UTC-0700): > > > 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. > https://www.thefloridaagents.com/is-florida-the-lightning-capital-of-the-world/ 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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
