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Belkin F6C1100-UNV 1100VA Battery Backup with Multi-Computer Connections | 
| Brand: Belkin
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $109.05
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Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Electronics
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Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 15.4 x 12.2 x 7.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: F6C1100-UNV
Model: F6C1100-UNV
UPC: 722868498729
EAN: 0722868498729
ASIN: B00020T5LS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Provides both surge protection and battery backup | | • | Supports USB connectivity | | • | 660-watt/1080 joules capacity | | • | Batteries provide 80 minutes of backup power | | • | Includes $100,000 connected equipment warranty; 3-year product warranty |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Belkin 1100VA Enterprise Series UPS protects against both blackouts and brownouts with four battery backup outlets that are surge protected and two surge-only outlets. A one-in two-out RJ11 phone/fax jack protector is included as well. Battery backup is provided for up to 80 minutes, and there's both a $100,000 connected equipment warranty and a data recovery warranty. The UPS itself is backed up by a 3-year warranty. USB connectivity is supported, and there's a capacity of 660 watts and 1080 joules, as well as automatic voltage regulation.
Product Description
The 1100VA Office Series UPS offers protection for your computer against blackouts and brownouts. It features 4 battery backup outlets with surge protection and 2 surge only outlets. The Enterprise Series also features dual communication ports for multi-computer management.With a capacity of 640 watts this unit is geared towards mid-level computers and workstations. The Enterprise Series also features easy to replace batteries for extended product life, and Automatic Voltage Regulation for line conditioning.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Works with MacOS X 10.4 March 2, 2006
Thomas Costa (San Francisco, CA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Good price for the performance.
Unpacked it. Plugged it in. Connected it via USB to my Mac mini. Charged it for a full day. Tested unplugging it and tweaking the Energy Saver system preferences for about an hour. Did a final test by using the Mac mini with it unplugged for about 40 minutes and the charge level was still well above 60%. Haven't thought about it since.
Never thought about using the supplied software.
Things that could be improved:
1. It always reports 100% level in the Energy Saver panel when plugged in so you can't tell how far along it is in recharging.
2. It's charge percentage reading drops down sharply to the high 80s for a little while after you unplug it and then totally levels out after a minute or two. So I had to tweak the Energy Saver setting to only shutdown based on a hard percentage instead of time because the time estimate is really pessimistic for the first minute or so due to the rapid initial drop off.
 A Few Reasons That Bulldog (Belkin's UPS software) Bites December 2, 2006
pdX (West Hollywood, CA United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Belkin UPS products use monitoring and shutdown software called Bulldog Plus. Since the software is at the center of how we interface with the product, this review focusses specifically on the software. To start, the software runs on Mac and PC. It does not run on Linux (which a majority of enterprise clients use). This lack of compatibility may suggest that this product line is consumer-grade rather than industry or enterprise-grade. With compatibility issues out of the way, my review follows:
BULLDOG DOESN'T LET YOU SLEEP
The software doesn't recognize when the computer (my experience is with a Mac) goes to sleep. Should a power outage occur while your system is asleep, Bulldog does not wake your computer and handle things as it would during normal mode: quit applications and shut down safely. Instead, you'll continue to run in sleep mode until the battery runs out. Second, under normal working conditions when you manually wake from sleep, Bulldog automatically launches to tell you that it no longer is monitoring your system. That is, after waking from sleep mode, Bulldog can no longer detect your load levels, nor provide you with other stats as it normally does. In effect, the software fails as soon as the system goes to sleep once. It only works when your computer is first turned on. Any variation from this, and the software is, by design, largely useless to you. If your computer is asleep when a power outage occurs, the UPS will continue to provide power from it's battery, but the Bulldog software will no longer do what you expect from a "protective" product (with no less a protective name). Wouldn't your "bulldog" wake you when something goes awry?
I called Belkin and spoke with a "product manager" for Bulldog. He said his team hadn't figured out how to interface with OS X's sleep function, and so he recommended (if I want continued protection from Bulldog) that I never "sleep" my computer, instead opting to either leave it on or shut it down every time I left it alone. Is that a solution?
POOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PREFERENCES
The application doesn't use a typical preference pane, instead it separates four preference windows which you access from menu bar drop downs. This effectively hides this tool's settings all over the place, making it difficult for us to, for example, stop it from prompting us with alerts every minute (a default feature in one of these window's settings) when we approach the load level. You can see in my TIP below that to make an adjustment, you have to go all over in the menu items to locate and modify related settings. This is the kind of software that illustrates how important it is to follow Apple's GUI guidelines: preferences in one window please!
ALERTS COULD BE MORE USEFUL AND LESS AN ANNOYANCE
To alert you that your system is approaching the battery's total load level, a loud sharp tone comes from Belkin's UPS speaker. This will continue to fire off whenever your load level dips below, then dips up again past that load level. How do you turn it's volume down? (I live in a small apartment - I don't need to hear it from the neighbors, or as it was intended, from the other side of the house...) Well, you cant change the loudness. No setting for that. It's also difficult to figure out how to get it to stop firing off (and waking your girlfriend in the next room: "Hey, what's going on in there?").
MULTIPLE LAUNCHES OF THE SAME APPLICATION
Oddly, though, it may have sprung open multiple versions of the same application, one window behind the other, and changing the settings in one while another duplicate application is launched effectively prevents your changes from being completely recognized. To see this multiple application launch in action, set both your Load Warning Level and your Load Critical Level to 45%. Then toggle on your Enable Notification Messages leaving it's default settings at 60 seconds. Every sixty seconds, each of the two warning dialogs launches a new application. Brilliant.
TIP: FIVE STEPS TO KILL SOME OF YOUR ALARMS AND ALERT WINDOWS:
1. From the menu bar item: System>Event Actions> Deselect the "Enable Notification Messages" radio button.
2. From the menu bar item: System>UPS Property...> Change "Load Warning Level" to 150%.
3. From the menu bar item: System>UPS Property...> Change "Load Critical Level" to 150%.
4. From the menu bar item: Control>UPS Audible Alarm Off> toggle this (it will provide no confirmation).
5. Quit Bulldog.
Launch Bulldog again and confirm that your 1-3 steps took. They WONT take if you had two Bulldog applications launched when you made changes. This ONLY prevents the alarm and alerts from firing off once every minute (you will still get messages if you cross 150%). This does not, however, prevent Bulldog from making noises each time you cross 100%. That's a setting you can't control. If this keeps occurring, consider getting a UPS rated for higher than your current voltage rating.
FAIR WARNING FOR THOSE CONSIDERING ANY UPS
I bought a 750VA UPS from Belkin. This is not enough if you're a professional editor, designer, or coder with a large monitor. I have to keep my 30" monitor's brightness turned down in order not to set off the fire engine tone from the UPS. My system is a G5 Quad (the last of them built, with 2.5GHz per core), with 8 Gigs of RAM. If you're editing video, importing CDs into iTunes or using Aperture or Photoshop, then you probably need a much higher VA UPS. If you're doing mostly email, browsing the web, and own a monitor smaller than 30" (or are using a laptop) then the 750VA may be fine for your needs.
 Lost all my data! October 20, 2006
A. Birch (Provo, UT United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had my server correctly connected to the Belkin 1100VA UPS for over a year. Suddenly, one afternoon, during a time when the server was not being accessed by anyone (and there were no apparent electricity problems), the power on several of the UPS outlets stopped working, so naturally our server was not getting power. When I unplugged the server from the UPS and plugged it into the wall outlet, the server would not boot up.
The computer tech used tools to try to repair the server, but the hard drive was beyond repair, it wouldn't even show up on any of his tools (you could see the drive, but there were no partitions).
To make a long story short, he had to reformat the drive (there doesn't appear to be any hardware problems). I've had to re-create my entire database/server set-up (not fun).
To Belkin's credit, they did replace the UPS (otherwise NO stars!), but of course no one can replace last data! Thank goodness for back-ups, but I feel very nervous about the fact that I completely lost all data on this server (something that hs never happened to me before), when it was connected to a UPS which is supposed to protect it from these types of diasters!
I had to conclude from this incident that if my server had NOT been connected to this UPS, I would not have lost the data. However, I also had to conclude that this was a fluke (therefore, I got a replacement, fortunately, they replaced it with a better class product becuase this one was out of stock).
I hope someone can learn something from this experience, though I'm not sure what!
Arrived Not Working/Defective September 8, 2006
Cape Codder (Cape Cod, MA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Pressing the power button on the unit did nothing. Doesn't appear to be broken but the unit does not work out of the box. I have a tech support call into Office Depot and will amend my feedback accordingly to how I'm treated there. Hopefully they won't make me pay cash out of my pocket to return a unit that never worked in the first place. The power surge only lines work, however the battery backup lines (4 out of 6) are completely dead. Checking the owner's manual reveals no quirky missed procedures.
Update: They had no explanation as to what the problem was but they sent a shipping sticker and I returned the product without issue. So, kudos to Office Depot, but can't say anything positive about the actual Belkin's quality control. In this day and age companies should just not be shipping DOA products.
DOA unit, returning it to exchange for an APC Back-UPS XS. October 14, 2006
D. Lloyd (California, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this UPS yesterday from CompUSA, and the unit was DOA right out of the box. I'm returning it to exchange it for an APC Back-UPS XS 900VA.
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