APC BY SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC UPS Back UPS 2200VA - BX2200MI - back-upbatterij en overspanningsbeveiliging, omvormer met AVR, gegevensbescherming

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mycket bra UPS. Endast nakdel ( som nsätan med alla APC UPS ) är att den lukta i flera dagar innan det läggs av.

It works well. but only for about 2 years.Pc & hub

USV kam superschnell und schon fast vollständig aufgeladen. Das war super, da ich direkt meine Synology NAS dran hängen konnte und diese sich über den USB Port auch direkt mit der USV verstand. Tolles Produkt.

APC is a market leader, but both the design and manufacture of this unit have issues. I haven't had it long enough to say much about its raison d'etre functionality, but I will say that it has a very strong example what I've always called "the Chinese smell" of the residues of manufacture not cleaned off - these are possibly VOCs, but it's hard to know. It's one of the strongest examples of this I've encountered; I left it powered in an outside shed for a week in the hope the smell would subside (it didn't). It literally leaves a bad taste in the mouth just sharing the same room - who knows if there are health consequences; I hope not. It also has a do-nothing power consumption of 40W - year round, even with no loads connected, and is consequently continuously always warm to the touch. That's currently going to cost me around £90 per annum, which puts its already high purchase price in an even less favourable light, along with its other environmental impacts. My similar (though slightly lower capacity) Cyberpower unit has neither of those issues - on reflection I should probably have opted for another one of those, but I couldn't find a unit with the right specification for an affordable price - false economy as it turned out. Stuck with it now. I might disassemble and actually clean the internals, like they should do in the factory before they ship them, and that's part of the quality proposition, so I'd have to say this is a poor quality product. As for the power consumption, that's just simply poor design. If you can avoid this brand's unit, I would - the smell alone is enough to reject it. The already high cost of ownership is made worse of course by the need to replace the lead-acid batteries probably every two years; that's about another £55 per annum - so we're looking at a purchase cost of £250 plus an annual use cost of around £145 at current (2025) prices. There has to be a better way, but lithium-based UPS, although they'll last years longer, are priced £1,000+ for this level of capacity; time for some disruptive market entrants.

Bought 2 and was easy enough to set up on different computers (does not support 1 pc monitoring both, but was able to get free software that allows to view both via local webpages after some system tweaks)Unfortunatly one unit contained 2x 2 pin plugs rather than the 1x 2 pin and 1 UK plug and support wasn't available when I needed it most (ended up buying a new cable otherwise would have had to wait 2 days just to contact support)One unit had a fault after a tempory drop of power but has worked fine since (it kept power to the pc but didn't want to resume mains power till reset).