Customer Ratings & Reviews

Unit is compact and easily portable, yet provides plenty of PC run time in the event of a power outage, as well as excellent power conditioning, thus preventing PC and/or data damage due to power spikes and/or surges.

I purchased this because I was having sporadic shut downs that were not commanded and the mac store ran diagnostics and said nothing was wrong with my computer. My only conclusion is I must have had surges coming through the outlet that my surge protector was not handling. When I hooked my computer into this battery backup my computer was no longer having the shut downs I was experiencing. I also had the opportunity to see a full house electrical shutdown that was experienced in the community and my computer kept running since I had the battery backup. I recommend this for anyone really.... its something I should have had on my computer from day 1 even at my prior homes for protection.

Plus: Stand-up design takes less under-desk space. Minus: doesn't have any more plug-ins than a smaller unit. Bummer! Still, didn't disappoint so much that I returned it, and have been pleased with APC product I've owned before. Obviously, since I bought another when my old one finally gave up the ghost.

I have bought this battery backup multiple times too use with camera systems. I habe never had an issue with them and they are great to use with large power devices!

Purchased this item replace another UPS that got burned out during a recent power outage. Hey, it did its job, so I'm happy. Went with APC this time due to reputation and reviews. I hooked it up, super easy, nice display. I have unplugged it and used the battery back up and it works nicely to power my PC and one monitor. Really just need it to properly shut down the PC and protect it. So far, so good!

With two computers, four monitors, a router, a switch, and a Cisco IP phone... I am getting 23 minutes of run-time. The application that monitors the system says I am only taxing the battery backup at about 1/4 of capacity. I also like the report it is giving me at my current power consumption which is important since I telecommute. Working out of my home and having all my equipment running, I am averaging $0.56 per day in energy usage. The app is customizable where I can input my actual rate so to compute what it costs me per day. I highly recommend this product, especially if you have high-load systems as I do.

I own several of these. Normally I buy the 1500VA version of this unit but they were not in stock. Of all the UPS's I've owned these have never given me any problems when running on my backup generator. It runs bit higher than 60hz. Lesser UPS's just keep cycling on and off which can't be good for the attached equipment. These just run and only engage the battery when one of the refrigerators or portable AC units come on. That's actually why I bought this one because the Sam's Club special $99 UPS would not work with the genset at all. Plugged this one in and I was back online.

I needed a easy to use battery backup system for my computer and modem to prevent "crashes" following power outages...and I now have surge protection as well!

I bought this unit because I live out in the country and my power often blinks on and off with frequent brown outs. I use this to protect my entertainment center, including 3D 55 inch LCD TV and blu-ray player. Power transfer is instantanious, as I have continued watching a movie without any interuption, even after my power has went out. It's powerul enough that it can provide a couple of hours power to my entertainment system before running down. You can connect it to a computer to change settings and check status. I highly recommend this unit.

This is a beast of an UPS. It has a battery adequate for the most rigorous home/work workstation (for me, I run a Dell T3500 Precision workstation and Macbook Air off the unit at work). This unit features a fancy LED display that allows you to see the voltage coming in, load, battery life, etc. It also features mute buttons so you can disable alarms when they go off (or if the battery is starting to die). The included software also gives you extra features, like measuring how "green" you are, how sensitive you want the power supply to be, and complete logging. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because, out of the half-dozen or so I've bought in the last 4-5 years, many had to be replaced at the 3 year mark. I realize this is the expected life capacity of the internal batteries, but the way they failed made them COMPLETELY useless. At ~$150, that's kind of a sore point for me.

I have had the product about a month. Works well. It was reasonably priced. It arrived quickly and the set up was very easy. I would recommend this product. I use it primarily for backup for my voice over IP phone service. So I have a phone, cable box, voice over IP controller and my wireless access point / router plugged into it. Not much draw on it so I think it is estimated to run for about 4 hours in a power outage.

Nice battery back up that has good run time for any devices you would want to put on it. A little heavy, but that is expected.

This thing is awesome with the powersaving function where it will turn off whatever you have plugged into the certain plugs is amazing, I never have to manually turn off my two pc monitors now and it holds battery power pretty well as long as you arent trying to run a gaming conputer on it or something, I would reccomend it to others

easy to set up. gives us peace of mind that our equipment is protected and will sustain operation through a power bump

After purchasing a new 27” iMac I wanted to make sure that my investment was protected. Let me tell you that this back up battery has worked like a charm! Iv had several power outages while on my computer and my computer has never flinched because of it!

Am using unit as backup power for a wireless router and miscellaneous small loads. Checking the APC website, the BN1080G has a significantly longer run time with this load than units with higher VA rating. Unit has LCD display with important operating parameters, means your computer need not be connected and operating to know run time remaining.

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A LONG LASTING POWER SURGE BATTERY THIS IS IT. THIS MONSTER WILLLAST 1.4 HOURS AFTER A POWER OUTAGE WITH A TOWER COMPUTER AND MONITOR. VERY RELIABLE, THIS IS THE 2ND ONE I BUY. THE OLD ONE THE BATTERY STOP CHARGING 4 YEARS AFTER I PURCHASE IT AND THE BATTERY REPLACEMENT COST 60 DOLLARS AND EASY TO CHANGE FROM THE COMPARTMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE UNIT. THIS IS A BUY ONCE AND OWN FOR EVER PRODUCT.

This can save your Computer and data from low Voltage or no voltage and voltage spikes. LCD can tell you the Volts coming in to your house as well as the remaining time you have before the battery runs out. I get about 3 hour with my desktop computer and 24 in monitor. it's great.

We have ran APC ups's in our company for a number of years small desktop units to large rack mount. This product replaced a similar size that happened to be the same size of APC that was used for our environment monitoring system. The previous ran for 6 years and I assume this will do the same. Typically the battery life is around 4 to 5 years which our previous APC exceeded that.

4/5 Because even though it's awesome and all, the program crashes when you close it and is written in a lame language (.NET). Very minor but all the features work well and it's not a serious crash (closing it anyways). It has tripped a few times already from variance in the voltage (the reason I got it) and worked across 2 blackouts. No longer will my computer reboot without my permission or come back from work with it being "half on" from a flash blackout or a brown out. Keeps all the stats of when it tripped, how much wattage you are using (from LCD display or through software), etc etc. Really neat stuff.