The SmallBizWindows Consumer Product of The Year 2015: APC BackUPS Connect 120
I like this device, and it is one that satisfies a requirement I had not thought about until I was approached by APC’s Jason Covitz about it, as documented here.
How does it work?
In a word: superbly.
In order to test this product, I used it as the battery backup for the router coming into The Orbiting O’Odua.
However, it handled that task with such ease that I knew I had to increase the load upon it.
It was then taken to MedikLabs where I inserted it into the power stream there.
One VOIP router manages telephony for the working physician practice there, while the other router is dedicated to MedikLabs research for a total of 16 voice lines, and 3 fax lines.
Yes, Dorothy, healthcare in the USA, even now in 2015, requires faxes!
After letting the BackUPS Connect Network device power for for about 24 hours, I failed the mains power by yanking the power cord out of the wall during the busiest part of the morning for the clinic and lab.
Power to the DSL modem and VOIP routers weren’t interrupted. Notifications aside, nothing.
However, after just under two hours and forty minutes without any mishap, I lost my nerve, and reconnected the power cable.
With a grin on my face, of course.
While the chances of a sustained power failure are low at MedikLabs since the building where it is housed is required to, and possesses a hulking great emergency power generator, I felt very good knowing that in the unlikely event of power being interrupted for a long period of time, the clinic would still be able to stay connected.
That’s a good thing.
With that in mind, and for the numerous uses this device 
One of these days, I will try to see how long it will hold it’s power under a full load.
Once I steel my nerves, that is.
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