CyberPower BR1200ELCD-UK BRICs Series, 1200VA/720W, 6 UK Outlets (3 Surge only, 3 UPS and Surge), 1 USB Charging Port, AVR, Brick Format

As described and good value. Prompt delivery very happy

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.

Works well but I find the constant bleeping when using battery rather unnecessary and annoying. I actually use it for my water pump for my central heating for my solid fuel burner that needs to be operative in the case of a power cut. Works well in such an emergency but would not buy again. I'd try and find one that wasn't so noisy.

I had a very old CyberPower UPS which finally died after many battery replacements. I then bought the BR1200ELCD, and what a complete load of rubbish. The first one I ordered arrived with a broken screen behind the "glass"—no obvious physical damage. I returned this and ordered another; however, the second arrived with a battery fault, similar to another review here, showing 90% but dead. Returning the first one with Amazon was simple, and it was collected, allowing me to reorder the second. But because it was a third-party seller, the second return was a bit of a nightmare. Amazon did resolve it in the end with a refund, and I've purchased a different CyberPower model that has better reviews, also one that is sold and fulfilled by Amazon. Hopefully, this one will be great; otherwise, I will never buy CyberPower again.

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.