[vox-tech] Why not APC? (wasTripp Lite UPS)

[Brian Lavender]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:42:55AM -0800, Henry House wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:35:07AM -0800, speck@blkmtn.org wrote:
> > Good for you.  A UPS is a nice thing. 
> > 
> > Why are APC units to be avoided?  I have used any number of them in the server closet in the past and I have not encountered any difficulty that I recall.  A friend has a nice one that he bought here: http://auction.apcc.com/ a while ago and has served him well.
> 
> See <http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2001-04/msg00224.html>.

There does seem to be issue with intellectual property rights and NDA's
with the APC UPS's, but there is good open source support for it.

http://www.apcupsd.org

brian

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