al wrote:
"James Hart" wrote in message
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I bought a small Belkin UPS from PCWorld (of all places) partly to
use as a power source when I'm away for a night in the van (powers
the laptop and digicamera nicely) and also as a fallback supply at
home. It earnt it's money in a couple of long weekends away last
year and again last week when the leccy went off for nearly 2 hours.
I bet I was the only one in the street with TV & Tivo & PC &
lighting (aren't low wattage CFLs great) uninterrupted throughout

How noisy is it when all your equipment (barring it) is off?

No noise at all. There is a slight hissing type noise when it's under full
load offline and it does beep at you when the power goes off but there's no
fans to keep me awake.

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James...
http://www.jameshart.co.uk/