Expensive, but a real bonus if you have a high powered workstation

Lots of runtime hours during power outage | APC BR24BP Battery Pack for BR1500 UPS

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	• APC BR24BP Battery Pack for BR1500 UPS APC APC average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Backup Power Option

I purchased this along with the BR1500 last year and so far I have been extremely pleased. When the power goes out, I can get around 1.5 hours of additional runtime from my equipment. This handles quite a bit of equipment. It does take awhile to fully charge after a complete drain and that is expected considering the size of the batteries.

It may seem expensive on paper, but nothing is that expensive considering you are plugging thousands of dollars worth of equipment into it and if you are in the IT industry, uptime is obviously very important. I highly recommend this product as a wonderful compliment to the BR1500.

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Expensive, but a real bonus if you have a high powered workstation

BACKGROUND

I have three of these units, the first one purchased in approximately 2003.

I have two high-end Linux workstations. One is a two cpu dual-core 3.0GHz AMD Opteron with a NVIDIA 8800GT video card and water cooling, the other is a two cpu quad-core 3.0GHz Intel Xenon with a NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 video card. Using an APC BR1500 UPS and the apcupsd software package on each of the two workstations, both machines had an approximate battery backup period of 12 minutes.

EXPECTATIONS

[1] Increase the battery backup period
[2] Easy interoperability with the BR1500 UPS

RESULTS

[1] With the APC BR24BP, the battery backup period increased from 12 minutes to 45 minutes. That is nearly a factor of four increase, which I felt justified the relatively expensive cost.

[2] It is so easy to connect the BR24BP to the BR1500 UPS. The BR24BP has a built in cable to attaches to a dedicated port on the BR1500. That is the only connection required. Power to charge the BR24BP is provided from the BR1500 via the cable. The BR24BP provides plastic extensions to allow the BR24BP to share the same floor mounting stand with the BR1500.

SUMMARY

I am 100% satisfied with this product. It has met all of my expectations. The casing if of high quality and it perfectly matches the BR1500's color and casing.

AFTERTHOUGHT

I would highly recommend this item to a colleague.

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Lots of runtime hours during power outage

This is an excellent compliment to the BX1500 or BR1500 UPS. With this battery attached I get several more hours of runtime depending on the load. Definitely worth it for extended use during power outages.

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Durable and good for even abnormal use

My computer system is not what you would call normal, it is mounted in a box truck that is always on the move. The conditions are dusty, hot and about a bad as it can get for a computer. This APC backup system has done a great job at keeping my computer up while I travel, without ac power, from one place to another.

It has only one drawback, that will rarely effect any normal user, it won't run on a modified sine wave that is produced by most, dc to ac inverters.

Other than that, this battery is great!

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A handy option, but it's expensive...

The APC BR24BP is an expansion battery pack for the Back-UPS RS1200 and RS1500 UPS unit. This unit offers additional runtime for these UPS models, which can be handy if you have one that is heavily loaded and need to get some more runtime out of it.

This product, while convenient and well thought out, is expensive. It is hard to imagine batteries costing almost as much as the UPS itself, and yet they do. Furthermore, APC does not provide any instruction on how to service the batteries in this unit when they wear out. Strangely enough, they don't even provide a ready means to recycle the unit when its batteries are depleted. In this age of environmental concerns and the need to recycle hazardous items, this decision on the part of APC is bewildering, especially since APC does collect products for recycling at the end of their useful lives.

If you need the extended runtime and have a relatively new compatible UPS, this might be the product for you It's well made and goes nicely with the RS1200/1500 UPS models. Unfortunately, it is expensive and not user-serviceable.

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