Running a Home-Office Through a UPS

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday September 21, 2005 @02:30PM from the something-an-electrician-should-do dept.

mwagner_00 asks: "After spending lots of money and time, I now have an office in my home. My wife and I both have computers (mine is a high powered gaming rig), and I also have a workbench where I work on other people's PCs. I have a web/email server as well. I would like to protect the investment by running the room's power through a UPS. I have a APC 3000NET that my workplace was going to throw out. The only thing it needs is a good set of batteries. Has anyone tried something like this before? Basically I want to find the breaker for the room, and after the breaker, run the power through the UPS and back out to the room. Is the UPS that I have sufficient to run a whole small office?"

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smaller apc ups are worthless by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-21 18:04 · Score: -1, Flamebait

lost a gaming rig and all my hard drive contents on another machine. APC said sorry not covered. Tech told me they never have to pay their warranty printed on front of the box, can always prove it was end users fault. If I wanted to try anyway had to fedex ups, both cpus, monitors, keyboards, etc. and they would examine them at their leisure. But as far as he knew they had never paid so I would be wasting my time