Recommendation for an UPS

dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 18 points –

I'm looking for a new UPS to replace an almost 10 years old APC beast that's having issues, but I'm not sure what to buy.

I'll be using it to power a small home server and some network equipment in an area where there are occasional power outages (but they last 2-3 hours). My requirements are:

  • 300-600€ range
  • At least 1500VA, 900W
  • Doesn't make noise unless it's on battery
  • Must not require proprietary software to monitor it or to calibrate the battery and other basic stuff (if it works with apcupsd or NUT it would be perfect)
  • No weird battery format

What would you recommend?

Thanks!

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Eaton is my recommendation. Look at the 5S1500 (modified sinewave) or 5SC1500. They all work with NUT. I have one of my UPS connected to a Raspberry PI Zero with NUT. And my servers NUT clients are scheduled to shutdown after a 2min outage and my NAS after 4min. I can also monitor the UPS from Home Assistant and receive notifications on my phone each time the UPS goes OB or OL.

https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/backup-power-ups/eaton-5-series-ups-brochure-br153013en-lr.pdf

Eaton. Just replaced most of our APC with them and have been pretty impressed so far.

APC is nice in an enterprise-like setup and the management software is really mature. That said, you don't get much for your money and for a homelab, I've been happy with my Tripplite UPS which was about half the cost. I got the expansion battery as well and the whole setup cost me less than $700

Got myself an Eaton as many of you suggested. The fan is noisy af but I can probably replace it, other than that it's perfect.

I have older 1500VA FSP running my hardware. I've changed batteries on it twice and it just keeps going and the batteries are easy to buy&replace. I suppose newer models are similar, but check the documentation before deciding.

I have a couple APC and Tripplite rack-mount UPSs as well as a couple CyberPower desktop models. Of the bunch, I’m most happy with the Tripplites. I’ll check the model and add that in.