I got a "BlackoutBuster" from CompUSA a while ago because they had a rebate 
on it, and I was worried about California's power problems coming here.  I 
just got the rebate check...

Anyway, the UPS is 500VA, and has a serial port connection.  It doesn't have 
Linux software (surprise, surprise), but it just uses relays on the serial 
port to signal the UPS status.  So I just used the "smartups" package from 
SuSE and used the "Best Patriot" configuration file since it uses the same 
relay configuration as mine.

Dan

> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:32:04 -0700
> From: "David P. Schwartz" <davids@desertigloo.com>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: UPS nomination
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>
> I picked up a couple 500 VA UPSs at Fry's the other day for $29 that have a
> $20 rebate -- hence, $9 after the rebate.  Nothing fancy about them at all,
> but they'll probably work fine for small systems.
>
> -David Schwartz
>
> "David A. Sinck" wrote:
> > I was out shopping for a UPS for my new box (finally!) and did some
> > quick comparisons that I thought I'd share with yall just to be nice.
> > This isn't an exhaustive list of UPSes avail, just the operative ones
> > in my decision making process.  :-)