On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:13:09 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:31:19 -0000, Toby wrote:

One point with the sort of UPS for PCs such as the APC ones, are
they won't power something from cold.

You can, I've done it with mine (SmartUPS 700i). However APC don't
recomend this cold start for some reason.


Perhaps it's a matter of the application. According to their
configurator, if you run this one at 300W (420VA), it will go for 10
minutes. In terms of a PC, this is probably not long enough to do
much work if you've started from cold.

One of the common philosophies of UPSes is to give time to perform an
orderly shutdown when the power fails. APC provide software to do all
this across multiple machines for example.

Perhaps this is more of a customer expectation setting exercise on
APC's part.
..andy

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