I have a (refurbished) APC Back-UPS LS 500 I've been using for a year and a half or so, and recently when the power's been crappy (thanks to bad drivers...) I've noticed it's no longer doing the thing ...

I have an APC XS 1500VA unit that just finally failed on me (batteries crapping out). It's been quite useful, but power here has been less-than-good, mostly due to me tripping out a breaker roughly ...

For mission critical business systems, UPSes are a critical necessity as a single brown out, power surge or power outage could easily cost thousands of dollars worth of lost time, lost data and ...