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Product Feature

Battery failure notification - Provides early-warning fault analysis on batteries enabling timely preventive maintenance
Power-saving outlets - Automatically cuts power to idle equipment to conserve electricity
Data-line Protection - Protection of data lines ensures complete protection of your equipment from surges
8 outlet models offer dedicated space to accommodate wide transformer blocks without covering adjoining outlets
Reserves power capacity and run time for connected equipment that require battery back-up
10 Outlets
3 Year Warranty
Audible alarm
Green Savings
LCD display
Master/slave connections

Product Description

Protect your office equipment from surges and power failure with this backup system. Data line surge protection provides enhanced safeguards for your modem, fax and DSL lines. Power-saving outlets automatically cut power to unused computer accessories when your computer is idle, helping you conserve electricity. Display features text and mimic diagrams that show modes of operation, system parameters and alarms. Audible alarms provide notification of changing utility power and UPS conditions. Boost automatic voltage regulation preserves battery life and maximizes run time by correcting low voltages without discharging the battery.

Product Detail

Brand: APC
Model: BX1500G
Original language:English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 15.00" h x9.50" w x18.75" l,23.80 pounds

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Product Reviews

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Two died in two weeks
By M. Farrington
On the surface, the units have seemed very nice. Love the LCD readouts. But I've now had two units die after 48 hours of operation (under 45% load for 12 hours/day).

The first unit failed spectacularly when I turned my PC on on the 3rd morning of ownership. Spastic flashing / beeping, an F05 error then death (and perhaps a whiff of ozone from something blown inside).

APC support is quick to cross-ship a new unit, without asking for any money on hold. This is a big plus in their favor.

The second unit did something a little different about 48 hours after purchase. It started double-chirping (which is not listed in the manual). There were no LCD error messages, and the voltages and load looked normal. The battery meter showed a full charge. The Building-Fault-Light on the back was not illuminated. I called APC and they had me unplug the unit to see if the battery would kick in. It did not, I lost power to my devices. Then it displayed the same F05 error (which in the manual is a charge fault). Luckily though it did not self-fry.

Called APC, and they'll be sending out a 3rd unit.

After this second one failed, I went and tested my Back-UPS XS 1300 that I bought at the same time as the first unit. It's in my downstairs laundry/server room. Pulled its plug, and it held up just fine.

So, I'll see how the 3rd unit goes and report back and update the rating if it holds up.

UPDATE: APC sent me a refurbished unit for my 3rd unit (2nd replacement). Generally I'd be upset, but felt that since it was refurbished that someone must have at least looked at it to verify it works properly before pushing it out the door. So far so good on this 3rd unit. It held up to both a simulated outage (50% load) and an actual outage (10% load). I've upped my rating from two stars to three (I still can't forgive for the hassle the two faulty devices put me through).

52 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
Mac compatibility lacking
By J. Wilder
I have an early-2008 Mac Pro and I recently suffered a power outage while Time Machine was doing a backup to an internal disk, and as a result my backup disk got irreparably corrupted. So my purpose for getting a UPS is to be able to gracefully shutdown in the event of a power outage. APC's web site made it sound easy... OS-X 10.5+ have built in support for USB UPS's... it just works! Not quite. It only appears to work until tested further.

When I plugged the USB into my Mac I was initially quite impressed that the UPS controls immediately showed up in the Energy Saver preferences. I was a little disappointed that some of the functionality was lacking, such as the remaining run time, but I could live with that since the percentage of batter left seemed accurate.

Next I began simulating events by pulling the UPS plug out of the wall. Next issue was the Mac Pro's power supply buzzed on battery power. This is because these non-Smart UPS's simulate the AC waveform in low-resolution steps. I didn't want to pay twice as much for a true since wave, so this was just another annoyance I could live with. However, I've read that some newer power supplies don't work at all with the stepped output, so be sure to do your own research on that.

Next I timed a shutdown in the middle of a Time Machine backup to make sure it was graceful. It wasn't graceful. OS-X does a hard shutdown and my backup disk got irreparably corrupted again. I verified this repeatedly on both Leopard and Snow Leopard. This was upsetting since this was the whole point of the UPS. This isn't a problem with the UPS, though, so not ready to return it yet, and began researching software alternatives.

However, in my repeated testing I find another major issue. OS-X and UPS stop communicating after only a couple events (1-4). Rebooting the computer or unplugging and replugging the USB cable gets it going again. Since most power events would probably result in the computer being restarted anyway, this issue could go unnoticed in practice. However, if folks have brown-outs or outages under a few minutes then this could again defeat one of the main reasons to have a UPS.

In trying to determine if this was an Apple problem or an APC problem, I connected the UPS to a Windows XP machine I have and installed the PowerChute software. Verdict: it's an Apple problem. I simulated over a dozen events on the Windows machine and it kept going like a champ. The PowerChute software also reports all the status information accurately and seems to work really well. For the first time ever I was a bit envious of the PC.

But that didn't last long because I found some better software for the Mac... apcupsd. This is not for the faint of heart as it's a complicated unix program designed for IT pros. However, there's a nice binary installation package for OS-X on the [...] website and it works pretty well right out of the box. It has a GUI agent that has all the status info reported by the UPS (a lot more than even PowerChute had). To make modifications to the settings, such as when to shutdown you have to edit a text file as root. This means you have to be familiar with sudo and vi commands. You can also customize what happens on any of a large number of events by editing files with names equal to the event. I modified each one to send mail to my Blackberry. I also made a simple modification to unmount my backup disks when going on battery. I did this, because even though apcupsd does a graceful shutdown command, Time Machine still created some minor corruption. Although the corruption was easily reparable with Disk Utility, I felt this still wasn't good enough, and Time Machine does seem robust against disk unmounts/ejects in the middle of a backup. I also verified that apcupds never lost communication with UPS over many simulated events and time. And if it did lose communication, there's an event for that, so it will send me mail, and not just silently ignore the UPS like OS-X.

I should mention I also investigated a piece of software called PowerSaveUPS. It's pretty full-featured and very nice, including 2-level shutdown (graceful, then emergency). However, 1) it's expensive, and 2) it still had the same communication problem as OS-X.

So now I am pretty happy with this UPS since I can do everything I want to do, and don't think there is anything better for the money. And even though the 2 main gripes I had with it seem to be OS-X and Time Machine faults, I'm still deducting stars from APC for claiming Mac compatibility when in reality it was extremely difficult to get it set up to be as reliable and graceful as it ought to be. I think they have a responsibility to put more effort on that.

On another note, this UPS has a feature where it will cut power to some sockets based on the current draw of a master socket. The idea is when your computer is asleep it will cut power to peripherals. This sounds nice in theory, and is how they get away with slapping a big sticker on that says it will save you $150/yr in energy costs. However, in practice it doesn't make much sense to plug much in there. I can't plug my monitor there because these sockets are not battery backed, so I wouldn't be able to see to close my files in an outage. I also don't want to put my printer there, because when my office computer is sleeping, we still may want to print over wifi from laptops. In the end, then only thing I found I could put there is my powered speakers. And I don't think that's going to save me anywhere near $150/yr.

For your reference, my 8-core Mac Pro with 30" monitor draws 320W at idle, as such this UPS supplies 17 min. of backup power.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Line Interactive Battery Back Up!
By Method2Madness "Alex"
I have two of these XS1500'S and they both work flawlessly! I have last years version (Red display) chugging along right beside it, as well and couldn't be happier. Setup was a breeze and I was extremely happy I had these during a recent nor'easter. I have my PC on one, which is idling at 183 watts as I type this and the unit is reporting 32 minutes of runtime. I have a 42" Panasonic LCD on another XS1500, which is currently using 116 watts and the unit is reporting 43 minutes of runtime. And finally on last years XS1500, I have my HP 22" LCD monitor, 3 powered external hard drives, a USB hub, two wifi routers, an Apple 2tb Time Capsule, a desk lamp with a 23 watt CFL bulb, and a Logitech 3.1 Speaker system. All this is using 65 watts and the unit is reporting 75 minutes runtime. During the storm, I was unfortunately able to test the units claims. They all were within 5 minutes of the projected runtime. Not bad at all.

I should note, however, that this unit differs from the RS model in that it only provides buck AVR and not trim. In 90% of the cases, this makes absolutely no difference, as most power conditions are low voltage brownouts. That being said, if there is an overvolt condition, the unit still compensates for it, but by switching to battery. You can adjust the sensitivity, as well.

This model does work well with a generator, although I had to adjust the sensitivity a bit to keep it from switching to battery. Once I set it to "low", all was well and I was able to use everything connected just fine for the 8 hours we were on generator. The computer power supply did emit a buzz while on UPS, but this causes no damage and is only the coil inside dealing with the modified sine-wave.

The included software works exactly as it should. There's not much to say on this front.

All-in-all a great UPS!