CyberPower BR1000ELCD-UK BRICs Series, 1000VA/600W, 6 UK Outlets (3 Surge only, 3 UPS and Surge), 1 USB Charging Port, AVR, Brick Format

Due to a power cable fault in my area, electricity supply was going off and on very week or so for several months. Not really inconvenient but I have a Synology NAS (home network disk storage used by all computers at home). Disks do not like power cuts and there is risk of damage. As the four disks in my NAS each cost a pretty penny, I thought it was time to invest in an uninterruptible power supply to save them from damage. Choosing which uninterruptible power supply was no fun. Much advice on the internet, much out of date, and not exactly clear and helpful.. Some advice was to aim for a vertical unit as heat dissipation is better. I couldn't find one in that form factor that I could afford. In the end I chose this CyberPower BR1000ELCD-UK. It comes with three uninterruptible sockets and three more anti surge sockets. Forget all that. I only use one socket into which goes the UK mains plug for my Synology disk drives. It is a heavy beast, which I find reassuring. Installation is a piece of cake. Plug it into the mains. Plug your Synology power cord into the Cyberpower. Connect the two with a USB lead. Synology stuff is amazing. It finds the UPS and asks if you want to enable it. It even advises that it would expect this CyberPower unit to power the four drives for around 40 minutes. You can choose how long you want to run for before it shuts down. I only want a tidy shutdown so chose ten minutes. Can you protect your disks from power failure as well as your PC? Sort of. Do some searching and you will find that there is some software you can get and install which will synchronise the CyberPower with your Synology and the Synology will then alert your PC.. It can be done but I decided to leave it for a rain day a long time in the future. Does it work? My neighbour, also suffering from power failures, also bought an identical CyberPower unit. He cut the power and sure enough the Synology kept on going and alerted him to the power failure before shutting down, later, gracefully. I had to cut the mains power briefly to change a mains switch. Once I cut the power, there was a pleasing beep coming from the CyberPower indicating that it was doing its stuff. The beeping stopped when I reconnected power. Success. If you've been contemplating an uninterruptible power supply, this one will do the job perfectly. Installation is a breeze. The unit is a bit smaller than a shoe box. There is a bonus - the battery is user replaceable when it dies of old age. This will save you some pennies vs. sending it to a service centre. Of course there has been no interruption to my house power supply since I installed it but I don't mind. A UPS is like having an insurance policy. It's there when you need it and otherwise you have peace of mind (knowing that your expensive disks will not be knackered in the event of a power interruption). Alas my UPS was not delivered by UPS. That would have made me smile even more.

This is a nice size, compact. It fits nicely under my computer desk out of the way. I did contact CyberPower about the too-short USB cable and the PowerPanel software, and received a prompt and helpful reply with a link for download. I left it charging for a few hours before hooking it up and tested it with a table lamp. It did flicker on changeover and the lamp's light seemed to pulsate on battery power, then once installed I tested it on the PC (fingers crossed). No problems at all. I tested the software by setting power-down time to 2 minutes. It shut the PC down, but I'm sceptical about it saving files in running apps. I left a game running, and it just closed down abruptly. Most apps require user input to shut down properly. When I powered up, there was an error message but a restart worked fine. The game put up a warning about an unexpected shut-down, but ran up OK. It's only very rarely that the PC will be running with nobody to shut it down manually, so it's not a game-changer. It did run quite hot at the beginning, but perhaps the battery was still charging. It's running cool now. A good buy, so far. PS You may be tempted to enable e-mail notifications via the software. Don’t, just don’t. I did, and was bombarded with e-mails. The battery status cycles between ‘charging’ and ‘fully charged’ every few seconds. I got an e-mail every time. Update - The unit is running quite hot, and the status shows 'voltage buck' permanently, indicating a high mains voltage. Tech support insists that I need to have my wiring checked, although I can't imagine what wiring fault would cause a high voltage at the sockets. I'll have to consider a replacement, as I don't like to be without one now.

Great value back-up power but a little bit dated in as much as it has surge protected RJ11 ports for your landline or modem internet connection (who has an old-style modem these days?) Only 3 out of the 6 ports offer UPS which is a shame, I wouldn't have thought it would be too difficult to make all 6 UPS capable. Software is easy to download and install but it doesn't have an Ethernet or USB connection to the PC so I am not sure how the software is getting its information. Only 1 x USB -A port, USB -C as well would have been nice. Now we get to the issue of turning it off... turning it on is easy, hold the button down until you hear a series of beeps and the display lights up then release the button. Turning it off is not so easy: You have to hold the button down until the display lights up, then release and then press the button again for about 2 seconds then release - it should then turn off, took me almost a week to master this so be warned. In conclusion, a good back-up power supply for 2 PC's and a screen, all of the sockets have surge protection. Given that we are now moving to VOIP phones the RJ11 ports are already redundant, an RJ45 port and cable to the PC would have been better. 1 x USB -A port.... well, they could have fitted a USB -C considering that USB -C has been with us for a while now. This device could do with being brought into the modern era, having said that, it does what it says on the box so I am happy with that. 4 Stars for the reasons stated. Despite its shortcomings, it is good value.

I have two of these UPS. The first being given to me by a friend, and this one (the one purchased on Amazon) because I needed another and the first one just 'did the job'. My home lab has breezed through several brown-outs now. Safety cut-outs are good as well in that I plugged my laser printer in once "to try" and it just dropped the power with the initial > 1kw draw. So .. back to the title. It does report under Linux via USB. However, the software from the official website is .... not modern (e.g. you have to create /etc/init.d because systemctl wasn't a thing when they wrote their software). However, it does work .. and there are configurable hooks for actions on powerloss which are trivial to implement. Really happy overall as the price-point feels much better than some competitors. Screenshot is from a Rocky9 KVM box, but with other systems/POE/Networking gear attached.

Pointless. No point reviewing anything other than the fact that it doesn't work! Plugged it in and charged it for over 24hrs, as per instructions (tiny print instructions). When switching power due to a power outage, it failed to power a couple of little hubs and an ADSL router - in fact, it tripped my consumer unit's circuit breaker. It's a brand new install too - new consumer unit, brand-new electrical house wiring as of two years ago, from a reputable installer. Seller insisted that it was my job to post it back to them and that they'd refund once they'd inspected the unit and determined it was faulty. I have yet to receive a full refund for the postage, item was refunded though. I would avoid this model, and probably avoid buying items like this from the marketplace, rather than direct from A - it's not worth the hassle.

Simple to set up and use. We're prone to power cuts here, and even though they're usually for around 10 seconds, my computer (mac pro) isn't happy restarting without a proper shut down. This will always result in hours of 'spinning wheel of death' while it does a complete re-index of every file for the 'spotlight' search utility upon restart. It runs at about 1/10th normal speed while this happens. So frustrating! I have now connected my computer and monitor to this (so using just two of the 3 UPS outputs), and now short power cuts are just not a problem, and if we do get longer ones, I can at least shut down the computer properly while using the backup supply. No-brainer for me, and it just sits in the corner waiting to spring into action. I would recommend 100%.

I live in a rural area where sporadic 3 second power cuts happen with monotonous regularity and occasionally a full on power cut where a line is down. For years i have worried about my pc and have several times replaced my hdd almost certainly as a result of power 'spikes'. Since installing the CyberPower Bric my pc churns away without worries. I recently had a complete power out, my entire house was plunged into darkness but, not my pc which sat there comfortable without incident. I had more than ample time to save my work and shut down the pc (which is what i wanted). The Bric whilst still delivering a small amount of power to the system beeped confidently and reported 98% power left. I did not test how long i could run my pc for as i have a 1000w Corsair psu and a BenQ 32" monitor but it was more than enough time to save my work and, more importantly, my pc. Good product, recommended.

After some false starts with APC banks that literally would take 4 seconds to kick in by which time everything is dead, I decided to try this brand that I hadn't happened upon before. Well, I am VERY glad I did. Firstly, APC don't even have software for the Mac anymore. Cyber power do and it works perfectly. To be honest, you don't even need to use their software as the Mac just detected the UPS and showed it in the energy settings area. The only reason I needed the software was because I wanted to turn off the 'beep' noise as it winds the dog up. :) My reason for 4 starts is only because the Mac software isn't signed. I would highly recommend them trying to find a way to make it available in the App Store if at all possible. But I suspect they can't access the system level settings they need for power management. As such, for non technical users they may have a little learning curve to run the unsigned software. Anyway, all that aside. The power bank kicks in as soon as power goes out. It reads out how long is left. It doesn't have the worse footprint and is silent when 'passing through' power. During a cut, a buzzing can be heard but that is to be expected. This is a great bit of kit and I plan to get another 1 or 2 for my entertainment centre when we move. I'm glad I found CyberPower and I hope others will find this review useful. Especially with regard to the Mac functionality.

Preso da un reso in sconto da 185€ a 85€ il prodotto ha manifestato problemi non si accendeva anche dopo le 8 ore di ricarica consigliate ho contattato l assistenza Amazon dove le varie procedure il prodotto ha continuato a non funzionare arrivato ieri e reso a malincuore oggi non capisco perché Amazon oltre ad accertarsi se il prodotto non mostra cadute e se è sono presenti tutte le dotazioni del apparecchio non ne testa il funzionamento peccato perché era veramente un bel prodotto