CyberPower OR500LCDRM1U Smart App LCD UPS Battery Backup and Surge Protector, 500VA/300W, 6 Outlets, AVR, 1U Rackmount, UL Certified

Works great for small situations. There are a couple of locations at work with just one or two switches that need to stay on. I'm using this more for power spikes that will only bring power down for a couple seconds. They arrive fully ready to go (it says in the manual to let them charge for 8 hours before you put a load on it. You might want to pick up an "RCCard100" This expansion goes into the back and connects to your network. You can also connect it with the built in LAN connectors, then follow the instructions on how to find it on your network. You can monitor them from an app on your phone, they will even let you know when power goes off for that UPS. The display and power light are nice and bright. The film on the outside did have a smell, but it went away after I threw out the box and trash.

TL;DR - This product works as expected and protects my home network from downtime due to home power loss. Power Strips are good for situations where you have WHOLE HOME battery backup. This option works for those who need just a few items in a rack.When I made the decision to purchase a rack for my gear I picked up originally a rack mounted power strip, as I had a few battery back-up units I figure I could just plug the strip into one of them and have my rack covered for the occasional power interruption that occurs. Well the dreaded blip in power came and all of my gear turned off and I scratched my head. First I figured it was a bad battery but I let it charge for a day and checked and it said I had over 100 minutes. I pulled the power and poof the rack turned off. After about 30 minutes of online research I quickly discovered that battery backup's require each item plugged in and no use of power strips before power nor attached to the rear.Armed with my new information I searched for a low cost rack mounted option with a weight requirement. This item showed up and has worked like a champ for me. I charged it for 16 hours prior to mounting into my rack. I then plugged in my gear and turned it on. All fired up as expected. I waited for all of the gear to normalize from being powered off and then I pulled the cord out of the wall and the gear in the SURGE port turned off as expected but my gear in the BATTERY ports all stayed up and the battery told me I had 65 minutes of life, I believe as that was a few weeks ago. I plugged it back in tested this scenario again 24 hours later and it worked as designed and expected.Lesson learned, do some research before making purchase decisions because mistakes can show you how foolish a idea of an idea you have. :)

I have had this a couple years and while moving I lost the battery cover. Contacted the manufacturer and they quickly sent me a replacement. Just had to send them a copy of the invoice and the serial number and they took care of me. I really appreciate that support.I have this keeping my modem, router, and switch protected.

I have a home media server running Ubuntu and found this UPS to be simple to setup on Linux, and it works great. No more dropping the server due to short power outages! It has enough power for the server, monitor, and NAS drive for 10+ minutes at least.Update 11/5/2020: The UPS failed on me: self-test showed failure and a power failure resulted in the connected equipment going immediately offline. I contacted CyberPower since I was within the warranty period, and they sent me new batteries to fix the problem, but it did not. On the second try they sent me an entirely new unit, overnight since I was going out of town that weekend. The new unit has been working great since installation. Nobody likes the hassle of failed equipment, but the most important thing is that CyberPower were responsive and took care of the issue quickly and without a lot of hassle for me. I still recommend this unit.

You can't connect printers or other current-heavy drawing electronics to this (e.g. receive or amp), but it works just fine for network switches, dvd players, cable boxes, Apple TV, Roku and the like. I also have my projector connected to this (rapid shutdowns really mess up with the bulb's life and they aren't cheap, so this unit would allow me to turn off the projector and for it to go through the cooling cycle). It was easy to set-up and seems to work just fine (only had it for a couple of months). It was heavy, so I didn't use the enclosed rack rails. I purchased a rack shelf for $20 and it works just fine.

Amazing choice from a homelab perspective. I have TrueNas running on an old Z270 setup that's plugged into this UPS. Cyberpower has native .deb packages that get linux systems talking over the included USB cable. I've got this UPS gracefully shutting down my NAS during power outages and doing weekly self tests. Couldn't be happier. Also had a weird burning smell on the first outage event, seems to have been a 1-off event though, as it's worked great for about a year now.root@nas1-z270[~]# pwrstat -statusThe UPS information shows as following:Properties:Model Name................... OR500LCDRM1UaFirmware Number.............. BF01806C1G11Rating Voltage............... 120 VRating Power................. 300 Watt(500 VA)Current UPS status:State........................ NormalPower Supply by.............. Utility PowerUtility Voltage.............. 118 VOutput Voltage............... 118 VBattery Capacity............. 100 %Remaining Runtime............ 27 min.Load......................... 81 Watt(27 %)Line Interaction............. NoneTest Result.................. Passed at 2024/04/22 09:25:16Last Power Event............. Blackout at 2024/04/16 11:12:40root@nas1-z270[~]#