APC UPS 1500VA Sine Wave UPS Battery Backup, BR1500MS2 Backup Battery Power Supply, AVR, 10 Outlets, (2) USB Charger Ports

Very excellent product to protect your delicate electronics. I use mine for my home theater equipment. It was actually suggested to me by an insurance agent. Very easy to set up. Once it is set up, just leave it. Now you have peace of mind that you will be protected.

I set this up in less than 15 minutes. Just hook up the battery, connect a few cables, make an online account, then download the PowerChute software. Now I’m protected against surges and power outages while working on my PC. With a 5090 inside, my PC draws a lot of power, and this thing handles it like nothing.

I have used APC UPS of various models for many, many years. They have always performed as expected. I currently have the Back-UPS Pro BR1500MS2 and it works perfectly. I'm writing this review not so much so about the UPS, but more for information on what to expect if using this UPS with a portable generator. I am an IT Senior Systems Engineer working from home for the last year or so due to Covid. I have a very highend computer system thus the reason I am using the BR1500MS2. My system draws around 450-500 watts constantly and this UPS supports it just fine. Ok, now on to my point. I live in Colorado and if you remember we recently had a very bad wind storm which knocked out power to most of us in central Colorado for several days. After the second day of no power and no heat (house was 39 degrees). I was pretty much forced to obtain a portal generator. This generator was a highend 8650 Watts from a reputable company. Generator performed as expected - Frig is working, got coffee, have some heat - all good. BTW we were without utility power for 8 days. Wife is happy again, so now it is time to get the computer system and network back on up and running. Here is where you need to be AWARE of using a UPS with Generator Power. I plugged the UPS in to the generator power. Turned on the UPS and after a few seconds, the UPS started to cycle from Gen Power to Battery Power back and forth. That's strange, what could be wrong. Well, it wasn't the input voltage from the Generator - Checked it to be 115v continuous, but UPS still cycling. AH HA, it was the input frequency. The UPS is rated as input frequency to be 60 +/- 3hz. The display on the UPS indicated it was receiving 63hz. So apparently, the Generator was outputting just a hair outside the 60 +/- 3hz range of the UPS specs and causing the UPS to cycle into and out of battery mode. Obviously, it was designed to do this. Ok, unplug all of the stuff from the UPS and plug into generator power and all is good. I need to talk with the generator manufacture on getting the output frequency adjusted no doubt. Sorry for all of the blah, blah, but I wanted to set the expectations if you have an operating environment where you must use a UPS with generator power, you may find yourself in a situation where things may not work as expected due to input/output thresholds of your equipment. Oh, and by the way, the generator manufacture said the Gen was operating within their specs 60hz +/- 3hz. Apparently, the UPS or GEN is not exactly within specs.UPDATE for BR1500MS2:I recently had the need again to use the UPS with my generator. Utility folks replacing power pole, so I powered up the generator to keep a few things running. As I had mentioned previously, I was having an issue with the UPS staying online using the generator voltage. After reading some additional detail about the UPS Sensitivity settings, I adjust the setting from the default of Medium to LOW. The definition of LOW is "Use this setting if your battery backup continues to transfer to battery operation frequently on the medium setting. Typically, this occurs when the AC utility source is a generator. Caution, this will allow greater voltage distortions to reach your computer." Ok, so why couldn't the support folks at APC advise me of this. Maybe because of the caution notice - who knows. Anyway, I set the sensitivity to Low, connected the input of the UPS to the generator output voltage. Ah HA, this time the UPS stayed online and stopped the frequent switching on and off line as before. I monitored the UPS output to my computer and only noticed a small variation in voltage and HZ. Not enough to cause any harm to my system. After utility power was restored, generator off, I put the sensitivity setting back to the default Medium. So I just wanted to update my previous entry about using this UPS with home generators. It does work afterall, just change the UPS sensitivity setting.

Very nice backup for your computers and internet routers your internet's router satellites does the job wouldn't own anything but

Works incredibly well. Price seemed high until I realized this created a true sign wave vs. a simulated sign wave. The function, in particular the true sign wave could have warranted 5 stars. Two other things that should be noted that made me want to rate it lower.1) They advertise that it comes with the PowerChute Personal Edition control desktop app, but when you go to their website to download it, they say it's been discontinued. It instead has been replaced by their PowerChute Serial Shutdown web app, which works well enough. However, to get that app you have to sign up for a business account. So I made a fictitious business so I could get the new app. That was really frustrating. I did find the Personal Edition by searching and that version also still works, once you find it.2) Good News / Bad News: The Bad News first is that my first unit made a very subtle high pitched noise. Not noticeable in a noisy environment but annoying enough in my quiet home-office environment that I could not accept it. The Good News is that APC (Schneider Electric) support was easy to connect with and they were VERY proactive in making things right. They sent me a replacement unit and allowed me to continue using the first unit until the replacement arrived. And they followed up with me multiple times to make sure things were good. Even with a phone call, not just email!In summaryThe Good:- True Sign Wave in my environment is awesome- Their support is incredible, especially when most companies have forgotten what customer support really is.- The replaced the defective unit immediately and made sure I was good with it.The Bad:- My first unit was defective.- The availability of their control app quite frankly is a pain in the posterior.

Product is very easy to setup and instructions are very clear. The options on information displayed give me the data I am looking for and I included pics on what it shows. This is used for my gaming PC and subwoofer. We get some power fluctuations in my area, so my use for this is to protect from power spikes, as well as battery power for short periods so my PC doesn't shut down unexpectedly. I have a generator and other portable power packs to run home power in case of a full blackout. In the 24 hours this has been up I already have 2 events registered on it (One was my testing it by unplugging the UPS to let it run for a bit on battery power to validate the 30 minutes it estimated, and the other is a valid event for power fluctuation from city power). I am very happy with this so far!