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APC BE350U 350VA Back-ups Es | 
 enlarge | Brand: APC
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  11 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.2
Dimensions (in): 15.1 x 8.9 x 5
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: BE350U
Model: BE350U
UPC: 731304118534
EAN: 0731304118534
ASIN: B00006HYUC
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| Features:
| • | 3 battery backup and 3 surge protection outlets | | • | 120-volt nominal output/input voltage, 200-watt maximum power output | | • | RJ-11 modem, fax, and DSL data line protection | | • | USB interface port, cable included; cable management system | | • | LED status display, audible alarm |
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Product Description
APC BE350U Back-UPS Pro 350VA Smart Battery Back-up and Surge Supressor - A sleekly designed surge supressor and UPS that is ergonomically designed for reliability at your home computer. $25,000 Lifetime Protection Insurance on equipment (due to damage from power-surge or lightning) included 2 Year Warranty, including battery 350VA Power Capacity
Amazon.com Product Description
Protect your data and hardware from power outages and surges with the APC BE350U battery backup and surge protector. The BE350U offers six standard three-prong outlets (three battery backup and three surge protection), enough for most home computer setups. It features a USB interface for convenient installation of the included safe system shutdown software, designed to protect your data. The BE350 will provide reliable battery backup for 1.6 minutes at full load (200 watts) or for 8.1 minutes at half load (100 watts). An audible alarm will sound when the UPS is activated. What's in the Box
CD with software, cord management straps, free trial of anti-virus, firewall, email privacy, system recovery and online backup software, USB cable, user manual, wall-mounting template, warranty information
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Great (llow cost) UPS May 25, 2004
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought 5 of these for the computers in the house. I would have got better ones but the house has an auto generator so all I need is about 30 seconds of power. I noticed in another review the person saying there unit was going of and on battery mode even when the power was still on... To my understanding this unit detects (dirty power) and when it detects it, it will then stop accepting ac power. I think the software it comes with allows you to turn the feature off or even turn the sensitivity up.
Tips for users November 1, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you find that they UPS is briefly cutting off power at computer boot up, there's something wrong with your configuration. The UPS is purposedly cutting off power in order to cause the computer BIOS to restart the computer. This happens only after the UPS has sent a shutdown signal to the computer. You should not power on the computer until the UPS is done with its power up procedure. If you want to take advantage of the automatic computer restart after AC power is back, you should set your computer BIOS to Power On when AC power is restored. Since, while the computer is off, it doesn't know when the power comes back on, when the UPS cuts off power briefly this is the signal to the computer to power itself back on.
 Good second unit March 17, 2004
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought one of these 10 months ago for my daughter's eMac. It has functioned well despite many power 'blinks' and short outages due to thunderstorms and such. I have a larger APS unit on our cable modem and wireless base station-equipped main home computer. It provides the main backup and surge protection to our home computing systems. The BE350U would be a bad choice for a larger machine or a modem-using computer but for our sort of secondary computer situation it has worked well. The shutdown software kicks in when needed and we have never lost any files as a result.
Great Bang for the Buck! March 12, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I installed this unit on my HP AMD 64 X2 with a 19-inch LCD monitor. Installation was very straightforward, with no problems experienced. The unit has two rows of power outlets - eight outlets total. All are surge protected, but only one row has battery backup. Each row includes an outlet that is offset to allow transformer power supplies to be connected and still accommodate use of the other outlets. The unit also surge protects the incoming telephone line, and interacts well transparently my DSL service.
The unit comes with a USB connector cable that is used to transfer information between the unit and the computer. Also included is "PowerChute Personal Edition" software. This software replaces the UPS option used under the "Power" icon of Widow's XP Control Panel. PowerChute PE allows user selection of alarms and power options to best fit the user's needs. PowerChute PE automatically loads at computer startup, and resides as an icon on the right-side of the Window's task bar. It monitors the unit's status, and provides information concerning abnormal power events that have occurred for future reference.
In order to assure that there is enough battery power for this unit to operate properly, I only attached the PC and monitor to the powered row of outlets. Transformers seem to use a lot of power, and to gain the most time available for adequate shut-down times they should only be plugged into the "surge only" outlet row.
When A/C power fails, the unit immediately picks up the power load. It will then begin to shut down the PC if A/C power does not become available shortly . The default method it uses is to place the PC into "hibernation mode", saving the desktop exactly "as is" for future start-up. It accomplished this task with my PC perfectly.
If I had wanted a UPS to keep my computer running for several minutes during an A/C power outage, this is not the unit I would have purchased. However, to keep my system from re-booting due to the power being interrupted momentarily, or to shut down the PC safely should the power outage last longer, this is a cost-effective solution for those tasks.
Great for Mac OS X too! April 19, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The manufacturer only lists software compatibility with OS 9. Guess what... Mac OS X (works great with 10.3) has built in support. Just plug it in to a USB port and it's available in the system preferences pane under Energy Saver. From there, you can set auto shut down and monitor the battery charge in the unit.
This is definitely recommended for smaller computers/monitors or people needing short run time. I'm using it with a PowerBook so that I can gently spin down my attached external hard drives and still have protection for surges on the printer and speakers.
You might want to consider the BackUPS Office 650 (Model #BE650BB) instead. You get considerably more run time and 2 more outlets (8 total instead of 6 total on this unit).
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