recommendations for UPS purchase?

[Scot]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:58:21 -0400, Dee Dee Sommers wrote:

> Does anyone have recommendations for UPS units?

I've been having issues with voltage sags ever since a solar 
power/battery backup system was installed here, and so far, the 
contractor hasn't been very cooperative in remedying the problem. I've 
had to install multiple UPS units to protect various appliances and 
electronics from these artificial brown outs. I read reviews at Amazon 
until my eyes teared, and only learned that Amazon doesn't sell a good 
UPS. Either the battery craps out early, or something in the 
electronics gives up, and you're lucky to get a few years out of any of 
them. 

I ended up buying the following through:
APC UPS BE600M1 - $59.87
Asurion 3 year warranty for APC UPS $7.99

If the battery dies after three years and the rest of the unit still 
works, I plan to hack them to use a standard marine deep cycle battery 
that will cost about as much as replacing the UPS and will provide a 
much longer backup time.

I've also gone to using MacBook Pro laptops for all of my computing, 
including XTension. The built in UPS (battery) and power conditioning 
has made them pretty much immune to the power fluctuations. It was a 
PITA finding the adapters to run a big monitor and various USB 
components, but there's plenty of advise in the XTension archives on 
workable solutions. FWIW, I gave up on power line interfaces for 
XTension and changed most of my home automation over to HomeKit based 
hardware. The HomeKit extension James put together works well for the 
things HomeKit can't do, such as monitoring the Internet connection, 
and the power line.

HTH,

Scot
Yankee Hill, California