Duel UPS

The power in my office sucks. Even with an APC UPS (Back-UPS350), any small fluctuation in power would cause my workstation to reboot. The problem got even worse when I connected a small laser printer to the UPS. Just sending a print job to the printer would cause my system to reboot! It still happened after connecting the printer to a surge protector connected to a different outlet.

Connecting to different outlets didn’t help because all of them close to me are on the same circuit. I needed a beefier UPS to handle the power load but we didn’t have anything bigger. My boss said I could just go buy a better UPS so I put in the necessary paperwork. Almost a week later, I’m still waiting on the PO.

I was getting tired of the reboots happening at least once a day so I started using a second UPS. The set up I’m using now is like this: