Belkin Home Office UPS

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Living in Florida means living with power outages, especially during the heat of summer or wild electrical storms. This convinced me to at least try out a UPS. I currently have a single Belkin Home Office UPS 650VA. In my informal testing, it’s kept the wireless router, cable modem, and Linux server running for about 20 minutes. It comes with Windows-compatible software drivers, which I don’t use, but I was able to use NUT (Network UPS Tools) on the Linux server to enable it to monitor the UPS via the serial connection and shut itself down when the battery gets low.

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  1. I finally rounded out my UPS arsenal with the APC Back-UPS XS800 for my desktop PC and peripherals, and the APC SurgeArrest BE325 in my media closet for the TiVo (gotta be able to continue recording during those summer brown-outs!).

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