Cyberpower Battery UPS Backups SUCK!

I finally got a refund after complaining long enough!

No, what you got was a bum unit - or you cheaped out and got their lowest cost crap "ups" that looks like a power bar. Almost identical to the APC version, and both garbage.

Cyberpower's small tower UPS (you know, a REAL UPS) are just fine. FOr about half the cost of the APC analogue, they're almost twice the unit. I've used both extensively, and APC's sub-$600 units are crap now. I've moved all of my mission-critical stuff to Cyberpower and the old APC, with new batteries, is now out in my woodshop.

The battery/surge side should at LEAST provide power if the damn thing is plugged in a working AC outlet and there is power!!! Whoever designed this should have their head examined!

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Was backing up a NAS storage device and there was power, the damn battery side just stopped working and the NAS powered off in the middle of a backup!

Whenever your product is mostly a battery, it is going to suck. See Tesla for reference.

There WAS working power and the NAS that was plugged into the battery side just powered off! If there is working power, the thing should not have just powered off!

Tesla's should not spontaneously combust on their own as well. Battery tech sucks.

And this was a new unit?

You... you DID remove the plug caps and actually attach the battery before starting to use the unit, right? Like you didn't just get it home, plug it in and hope there was nothing else for you to do?

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Also, stop going on about it, you sound like a moran.

I am unfamiliar with that brand, however an adequate UPS by APC may be had for $500 to $750 if you shop carefully.

Or for free, if you know know a business that is replacing theirs when the only thing wrong are bad [worn out] batteries.

You do get what you pay for; a decent one or two outlet surge suppressor costs over $200 so figure that a UPS with the same capacity will cost three to four times that.

Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 11/01/2019 08:32 PM

Yes, I DID, I am not THAT Stupid!

Or packing up and moving and leaving everything behind which happens.