APC UPS Battery Backup for Computer, BE550G Surge Protector with Battery Backup, Dataline Protection

I bought one unit of Schneider Electric APC UPS 425VA UPS on May 2024 89.99$. I use it to prevent Internet outage with increasing frequent brownouts and short blackouts. I connect one router and one access point to this UPS. I test the UPS the same day when it arrives. For this, I cut the power upstream to the UPS. It does immediately switch to battery and with no impact on the two devices. Internet is still connected. While on battery, the green indicator light flashes. I hear no alarm. It might have something to do with the settings. I leave the battery on for about one minute then I turn the power back on to the UPS. The green LED no longer flashes. All is well. No interruption occurs for both of my devices. I conclude this is a good product. Working as intended and as expected. Edit: working as usual after one month.

Siempre me recomendaron la marca APC cuando buscaba un UPS para mi computadora de escritorio y la verdad no me ha decepcionado. El producto llego en tiempo y forma, y en excelentes condiciones. Lo he estado usando por un par de meses y ha respondido como esperaba, ahora ya no tengo que preocuparme por estar jugando mis videojuegos favoritos en linea y tener una desconexión imprevista. La verdad recomiendo mucho el producto y el vendedor.

Hasta el momento una excelente compra

Many of the negative reviews imo aren't really understanding that this is a cheap UPS. If you want a UPS that auto turns off your PC during outages, has longer batter life, can handle higher voltage, etc, then you're 100% looking at the wrong UPS! This UPS does exactly what it claims. It's a small UPS you should use more as a surge protector and to handle small power outages. It's cheap for a reason, though when you actually get a hold of it, I was impressed by the quality it felt like in this price range. I've bought various UPS's over the years. Some are very expensive, where some I got for $50 like this. When I buy cheap ones like this, it's usually to handle my home lab switches or router. I use this for things that don't take much power. If you have a low end PC or a laptop, this would also be perfect for you. By low end, I majorly mean your GPU doesn't hog a butt load of energy. If you're using 2 GPU's, or you have something like a 3090, then you may need to think about getting a UPS that can handle something bigger. But this in my opinion is a fantastic UPS. It delivers quite dang well for this price range. Seriously, it's a really good UPS and I think this is the 4th one I've bought so far. Not that any have broke, I just have a lot of UPS's (I run a business with servers, have a home lab, and more). And I've ran these little UPS's through the ringer. One of them in particular, I've definitely run more than I should. I put a server on one of them that also has 2 GPU's in the server that mines at the same time (might as well since it's on 24/7 anyways). I'm definitely capping out what this thing was built to handle, yet it handles it like a champ. Again, not saying that this is what you should use this one for haha. But I've been quite happy with this UPS. But again, most the negative reviews I've seen are people complaining about aspects of this UPS that in my opinion, aren't aspects in any UPS you'll get within this price range. For example, my file server doesn't use that much electricity. But it's mission critical that it never shuts down and that it automatically turns off before the UPS dies. I spent I think like $300 to $400 on a UPS for that server. When I got that expensive UPS, I ran various tests, was quite unhappy, returned it, and replaced it with another within the same price range. I get being picky, I really do, but I also understand the difference in pricing. When I spend $300+ on a UPS, I am looking for various features, battery life, and more. But this UPS imo offers a ton of qualities beyond the small price tag. So, this was majorly me ranting about the few who disliked the UPS because they expected more, but know I've bought various of these, I'm incredibly happy with them, and for 99.99% of people, I think they'd be perfectly happy with this.

Bought this device several years ago and it’s still working great. I use it in my garage where it is supplying power to my Amplifi router and Ethernet switch. I use the hard wired Ethernet connections for my home backup batteries and access to the internet. The garage router is also hardwired Ethernet connection to the other routers for the best reliability. I found that even though the router and switch are on a critical circuit powered by the home backup batteries the switchover time is right on the edge to keep the router and switch continuously powered. So the suspenders and belt backup works great and I haven’t had any connection problems during power outages. Since the unit is powered by the backup batteries the short time for switchover that there maybe in a power outage is amply covered by the units capacity. Very pleased with its operation. I use similar units for the other routers and WiFi extension devices on my home network. The main electronics closet is also backed up with larger APC UPS devices.