Bought this a few weeks ago, on sale at Walmart for $40, to keep my cable box powered up during power fluctuations. THIS PIECE OF JUNK DOES NOT-NOT-NOT WORK. My lights flickered today. CLICK: cable box powers down. This thing can’t even keep the tiny electrical load of a 6-month old cable box running?!?! So the cable box tries to reboot, CLICK. Three more times the box can’t even fully reboot and the UPS fails to do it’s job. Also, the manual describes several scenarios of status light plus beep tone, but it DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE BLINK PATTERN I AM SEEING, NOR THE BEEP TONE!!!!! I am VERY frustrated and I will NEVER buy another APC product ever again. I am going to try CyberPower as I hear they are very good. NOTE: Earlier when I did a search for APC UPS half of the results ... More
Bought this a few weeks ago, on sale at Walmart for $40, to keep my cable box powered up during power fluctuations. THIS PIECE OF JUNK DOES NOT-NOT-NOT WORK. My lights flickered today. CLICK: cable box powers down. This thing can’t even keep the tiny electrical load of a 6-month old cable box running?!?! So the cable box tries to reboot, CLICK. Three more times the box can’t even fully reboot and the UPS fails to do it’s job. Also, the manual describes several scenarios of status light plus beep tone, but it DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE BLINK PATTERN I AM SEEING, NOR THE BEEP TONE!!!!! I am VERY frustrated and I will NEVER buy another APC product ever again. I am going to try CyberPower as I hear they are very good. NOTE: Earlier when I did a search for APC UPS half of the results on Google were for CyberPower products. Just now when i did a search for CyberPower UPS there were ZERO results for APC! I guess that should tell us all who NOT to use... Less