Features:

  • 850VA/510W PFC Sine Wave Battery Backup Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) System - designed to support Active PFC and conventional power supplies
  • 10 NEMA 5-15R OUTLETS: (5) Battery Backup & Surge Protected Outlets, (5) Surge Protected Outlets safeguard servers, workstations, network devices and telecom equipment
  • MULTIFUNCTION LCD PANEL: Displays immediate, detailed information on battery and power conditions, including: estimated runtime, battery capacity, load capacity, etc. Operating Temperature : 32 – 104 °F (0 – 40 °C)
  • AUTOMATIC VOLTAGE REGULATION (AVR): Corrects minor power fluctuations without switching to battery power, thereby extending the life of the battery
  • 3-YEAR WARRANTY – INCLUDING THE BATTERY, $250,000 Connected Equipment Guarantee and FREE PowerPanel Personal Edition Management Software (Download)
Solid UPS for modern, powerful PC's

I've owned this for seven years and I've bought two more like it in the years since then, most recently last week. Two are for my office and one for my personal computer. Two of them are 1500VA and one is 1350VA. The reason for buying a pure sine wave UPS like this one is to work with the active pfc power supplies in most modern computers. I've had numerous power failures, but my PC's on my Cyberpower Sinewave UPS's have always kept running. The battery in this unit (a 1500VA) finally failed after just over six years. I replaced it earlier this year with a CyberPower RB1280X2B that I bought on Amazon for $75, much less than the cost of replacing the UPS. Replacing the battery (it's actually two batteries linked together) was easy and fast. I've attached three screenshots of Cyperpower software displays. They provide the current status, including how many watts you're plugged-in devices are currently using and how many minutes they'll keep running if the power goes out (at this moment for me it's 46 minutes when I'm using 144 watts). You can also bring up a report of how many times and for how long you lost power in the last week, four weeks, 12 weeks, or 24 weeks, and there are a number of configuration options. I've bought three of these in seven years. All are still in use. I would not hesitate to buy one again if I needed a fourth.

Works with Unraid Server!!!

Just received and installed, and already satisfied. I built a mini-ITX Unraid NAS/Plex Media Server and this UPS was the final piece. I simply plugged the server power into the UPS and plugged the usb from the UPS to the server. I just enabled ("started") APC UPS daemon program under "UPS setting" and Unraid immediately recognized it. I unplugged the UPS from the wall power and Unraid notified me that there was a loss of wall power at the UPS and how much time I had left on the battery. Now we just have to see if this bad boy will last.

Best UPS one can buy right now

I am the proud owner of 3 of these (so far). They're quiet when on AC power. They have great customization. I've muted the beeps and warnings so if the power kicks off, they just take over without distracting me further. I LOVE the 2 front USB plugs. I charge devices from them all the time. The LED screen is off by default until you press a button, so other than the dimly lit power button on the front, there's no distracting lights or sounds under normal use on AC power. So, how well do they work? Well, I've owned a lot of UPSes. These are by far much quieter than any I've purchased from APC. They have a true sine wave output (which is amazing!), and the 1500VA is perfect for most electronics. The front screen will tell you how much of a load you have plugged in and even an estimate for how long the unit should run given that load if you lost power. So, no surprises! I ran a 42 inch TV for about 2 hours off of one of these when a hurricane knocked out our power. I had another with our cable modem, wireless router, and home phone base connected until our provider lost power and then some. I'd recharge the UPS from our generator during the day and move them to wherever I needed light and plug in lamps with Cree LED bulbs in them. They'd run for hours and hours. I even ran a small fan on low for about 30 minutes off of one. It was hot, and I knew with the true sine wave output I could run a small motor on low without issue... so... yeah, heaven on a hot, muggy night with no air conditioning. Cons: not really any cons -- best lead acid-based UPS one can buy for home use. Some UPS companies are experimenting with Li Ion UPSes, but they have low VA ratings and are absurdly expensive for now.

Great product for Mac

This CyberPower works great. I've had it for over nine months now. I'm using it with a 27" Retina iMac and several external drives connected to the battery outlets. Sometimes also a second computer, digital audio interface, and a reel to reel tape recorder. With everything running it predicts about 15 minutes of battery, with only the iMac running basic software (not anything CPU intensive) it predicts 40–50 minutes of battery life. My biggest question when I was looking for a battery backup was do I need a pure sine wave UPS? If you have a Mac or any computer with an energy efficient power supply, you need to get a sine wave UPS. The modified square wave will damage or shorten the life of your computer. I would also recommend the sine wave model if you use audio equipment, the square wave may add noise to your audio. My second question was do I need something that is Mac compatible? Many of the main brands including CyberPower are mac compatible. You will not need the included software disk. Apple has built the functionality into OS X to communicate with many UPS units. When you plug in the battery backup to your USB port, a new preference pane tab appears in system preferences. It allows you to change settings for how long your computer will stay on when the power goes out. To access, click System Preferences > Energy Saver > UPS. I attached screenshots below. Ironically as I'm writing this my power just went out, what luck.

a great little life saver!

this thing have saved me multiple times when the power was out at my house! im running 2 gtx 980 ti on my pc that has oc'd 3930k stable 4,4ghz on corsair h80i with 1000w psu! my pc power comes straight from this sweet little battery backup (which is ofcourse getting its power from the wall power outlet) and its the only thing that connected to the battery backup which is also has surge protector! if i can remember its already been 5 times where the power was out at my home while i was playing games on my computer and luckily my computer wasnt affected and kept on running with around 6 min showing on the lcd of the ups even the ups keeps beeping! if it wasnt because of this sweet little ups who knows what kind of damages already caused by the power outages to my computer?! the ups is heavy, and the build quality is top notch and has all of the feattures that you would like to get from a 150usd ups! it is very worth every penny even though majority of the casual computer users probably wont even need it but to me id rather spend 150 dollar than fixing thousnds of dollar worth computer!

Works with Western Digital EX4 over USB

This UPS showed up today and I already have it hooked up and running. It was extremely easy to get plugged in, looks great, and didn't require any troubleshooting for my application. I'm using this as a battery backup for a 4-Bay Network Storage (NAS), a cable modem, wifi router and a 6 camera PoE network video recorder (NVR) with 1 HDD. The estimated runtime shown on the LCD with everything running is 75minutes which is pretty good. The biggest reason I bought this was to prevent unsafe shutdowns of my NAS. I've had to rebuild and recover the RAID array twice after power outages. This UPS has a USB connection to the NAS and as soon as I powered up the NAS it recognized it as a USB device and shows the battery state. I haven't tested it yet, but the NAS is supposed to automatically shut down (safely) when the battery gets down to 10% so I shouldn't ever have to worry about power failures again. The NAS I'm using is a Western Digital EX4. The COAX surge protection is also nice, I have my cable going through that before the modem. The only downside is that the ports on the back are really close together and oriented sideways. So if you have power adapters for newer modems and routers and things that are meant to connect to traditional power strips and hang off the side, they won't fit next to other plugs. I knew this ahead of time and ordered a bunch of 1ft extension cables which work perfect.

This is a great UPS

I bought my CP1500PFCLCD in January 2011. I has performed flawlessly from the beginning. Today, after over 6.5 years the batteries finally died and needed to be replaced. That's much longer than any other UPS I have ever owned and I've owned probably at least a dozen.Replacing the batteries was a fairly simple process. Now it is running as good as new once again. Prior to getting this UPS I was using an APC UPS. The problem was when I upgraded my computer the APC would not keep it running during power failures. Obviously I had an Active PFC power supply which I know nothing about at the time. After researching I realized that I needed a different UPS - one that was compatible with Active PFC power supplies. An APC unit that was compatible with my new computer was prohibitively expensive. Then I came across this CyberPower unit. It has served my needs well and has exceeded my expectations.

Great for a 1/2 HP garage door opener in an emergency!

I bought this for a friend who keeps a 7.5KVA generator in his garage, when I realized he can't get his garage door open without power. After replacing 2 incandescent 100W bulbs, with 20W CFLs, the non-motor load went from 1.6A to 0.3A. That, combined with the 1/2 HP motor load, is well within the load capability of this UPS. After verifying that the unit was fully charged, we tested it under actual load. We were able to cycle the door up and down 4 times before it shutdown. Plugging it back into its source, triggered a countdown back to normal operation. This is perfect for the application when the goal is to open the door to start a generator. It's also fine if you're just going to open and close your door to leave during an outage, and again when you come back home. I also plugged the 4, ceiling fluorescent fixtures into backed-up outlets, so that 1 or more could be used AFTER OPENING the door, to help see while hooking up the genny. I'm not stating that this UPS is specified as a means of powering a garage door opener, just that it works. I didn't scope the output but I expect that it looks decent or my meter readings would've been off. Just keep in mind that 1HP = 746 Watts, if you're considering this sort of application.

Cyberpower customer service - is awesome

I got one of these and when it would kick on, it'd make a HORRIBLE noise. It sounded like a gas generator. Completely unacceptable. I called customer service, fully expecting the run around, not to mention off shore "service." However, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to talk to a real person, very quickly, and they were...in the US. Imagine that. Anyhow, I told them the problem, they listened to it over the phone, sent me a pre-paid label, I sent it back - boom....3 or 4 days later I had a brand new one which has given me ZERO problems since. I've had this guy for about a year and if you have a "real power supply" like a Corsair unit or some other enthusiast quality supply, this is what you need to keep the beast going without any hiccups in power outages or brownouts. Very pleased with this and my other Cyberpower unit and again, their customer service was a breath of fresh air.

Best UPS for this price range and PURE SINE WAVE output!

My CyberPower CP1350PFCLCD PFC Compatible 1350VA 810W Pure Sine Wave Tower UPS arrived today in perfect condition and I immediately put it to the test with my oscilloscope monitoring the output under load (my Dell XPS 9000 computer and LCD monitor). I was thrilled to see a nice smooth sine wave output when running on battery power which was not the case with a Tripp Lite model G1010USB that claimed to have a "PWM sine wave" output but instead was a stepped square wave and my computer refused to run with that UPS. If you have a modern computer and it won't work with the cheaper UPS backup supplies when the power fails it is most likely because your computer has a PFC type power supply which WILL NOT WORK on any type of waveform other than a pure sine wave! Some people complain that they wish the battery capacity was higher so they can run on battery power for tens of minutes if not an hour but the purpose of ANY UPS in this catagory is to allow the user to safely close their open files and shut down the computer in a matter of a few minutes, not power it for tens of minutes or longer. If you need extended time emergency backup power then you'll need either a backup generator or a bank of batteries running an inverter to supply power to your load. I have posted a photo of the sine wave output from my CyberPower CP1350PFCLCD PFC Compatible 1350VA 810W UPS when it's running on battery power only and supplying about 175W to 200W of power to my computer and monitor. The waveform was smooth and actually had less distortion than what is coming out of my wall outlet! Unlike some reviews from a year ago, there was no smell coming from the unit when I unpacked it and no smell when running so if that was a problem in the past they must have fixed it. The only thing I wish were different is the lack of ability to keep the display backlight on (it goes off after several seconds when the front panel button is pushed - probably to save energy). I highly recomend this product - especially if you are looking for a UPS that produces a true sine wave output for your computer's PFC power supply requirement. May 21, 2012 - This is a follow up to my original posting. The UPS is still running great and I got a response from the manufacturer about how to keep the display light on constantly. "You can configure the LCD to stay ON at all times by pressing the DISPLAY button for 2 seconds until you hear a short beep. This will configure the display to stay on at all times." CyberPower CP1350PFCLCD PFC Compatible 1350VA 810W Pure Sine Wave Tower UPS

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