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UPS or good surge protector for G5?
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I just had a scare with my PowerMac 2.5 G5. I came home from work and there had been a 3-hour power failure in my neighborhood. The G5 had died in its sleep. Fortunately, I called Apple and it was a simple matter of taking off the cover and re setting the PMU or SMU. However, this experience has compelled me to upgrade to better surge protection. I'm currently using a generic, old cheap surge protector. I'm hoping the experts on this board can make some recommendations. I live in San Francisco, so housing is dense, the power system in my neighborhood isn't the greatest, and my house is almost 100 years old, so the circuits probably aren't the greatest either. TIA for your suggestions.
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I'd go with a UPS, it will buy you time to shut down gracefully when you lose the power and let you coast right through short blackouts and brownouts.... I'd recommend something from APC over 1000VA.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I use a $200 Belkin UPS with my dual processor 2 GHz G5. It doesn't last long w/ the G5 & multiple LCDs but it does shut the system down cleanly. 10.4 has some basic UPS support (the Belkin software kind of sucks though).
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There are some that will communicate with your computer and shut it down when it has less than a few minutes of battery - not sure of mac support for these...
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I bought the APC Back-UPS ES 750 right after a big Pacific NW storm. Mac OS X 10.4.x offers native support with it. It serves my DP PowerMac G4, studio display, and external HDDs. I didn't do a test myself tho.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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APC or Tripplite are the best sources for highly reliable, well supported and insured UPSs. A 1000VA unit might be overkill for a Mac Pro-that works out to about 750W. Going high is not a problem, but that high for ONE computer may not make financial sense.
I like Belkin's UPSs for less critical jobs, but for a computer, I try to stay exclusively with APC and Tripplite.
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Glenn -----
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