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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.deltanet.com!usenet From: bissot@deltnaet.com (Joe Bissot) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: need comments on Uninteruptable Power Supply Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 19:58:18 GMT Organization: Delta Internet Services, Anaheim, CA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31a71bc9.4650046@news2.deltanet.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960519000056.20746A-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu> <Drn7JM.IxD@ritz.mordor.com> <Pine.HPP.3.93.960522022708.8039C-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sbd0129.deltanet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc:4077 comp.os.linux.misc:106739 comp.os.os2.networking.misc:14559 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20338 comp.unix.misc:23125 On Wed, 22 May 1996 02:34:28 -0500, Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu> wrote: >As the name suggest, this UPS is suppose to be compliment to the AST >Manhattan servers. But my guess is that the sale hasn't gone all that >well. Anyway, for 1000VA UPS, it's selling for under $200 -- and it has >utilities for several OS (BSD, OS/2, Netware, etc.) for interfacing with >it. > >Of course, it's the price that's attractive. I'm thinking of buying >several. One of the personal replies I got said the unit is indeed good, >but he's not too well conversed in UPS to know what kind sine wave it >produces -- he just quoted me the items in manual. I have looked for UPS >from both APC and Tripp Lite, but couldn't recall about sine distortion in >"%". I was hoping that either someone has these AST UPS to know what makes >it tick, or someone who knows something general/technical about UPS to >point me out if this "3% distortion on sine wave output" is indeed a good >figure to use. I have an APC Smart 1400 and its specs are.... Low distortion sine wave Frequency limits (on-line operation) 50 or 60 Hz, +-5% On battery frequency 50 or 60 Hz, +-0.1 Hz Transfer time 2ms - 4ms