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Perfect supplementary UPS to use with home networking equipment
I've always used a UPS on my desktop computer, which I use to work from home - it's perfect for a short power outage or fluctuation, as happens here in semi-rural Arkansas during stormy or windy weather. Usually if we have a power outage it's for a few minutes at most, and if it goes on for more than 10 minutes I have a manual standby generator wired into a transfer switch so I can fire that up.
In the past I had my cable modem, router, and Ethernet switch all on my desk in my home office, so all were plugged into the same UPS that runs my desktop computer. When we moved a few months ago, the home office in my new house is now at one end of the house - not ideal spot for Wi-Fi for the house, so I wanted to locate the modem & router in another room, and the Ethernet switch went in the basement for convenience of wiring up a couple computers and a printer spread around the house.
I no sooner finished wiring everything up, when I realized - what happens with one of our famous power glitches? I'm going to lose Internet. What I need is a couple of very compact UPS's that just power the small electronics (modem & Time Capsule router at one location, and Ethernet switch at another). Wonder if anyone makes something small & inexpensive...
Sure enough this BGE70 is just about tailor-made for my situation. I had already built an enclosed cabinet for the modem & router that had plenty of room for extra wiring for a stereo system, no problem adding this in there. In the basement, I'd wall-mounted the Ethernet switch and a patch panel - the hanging slots on the BGE70 let me mount it up right alongside.
I like that the battery is easily accessible & replaceable for when that time comes (as it always does with a UPS). It's also a fairly standard and easy to buy battery, which does affect the form factor (there are some more compact UPS's that almost look like an oversized power strip - but good luck finding a replacement battery in 4 years). I like that the alarm beeps ONCE during a power outage, and doesn't keep chiming away like most UPS's.
January 2015 · Electronics · verified purchase