- CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS Battery Backup and Surge Protector, 1500VA/1000W, 12 Outlets, AVR, Mini Tower, UL Certified

I purchased my first of these UPS units in 2019, and it provided dependable service for years. The only maintenance it ever required was replacing the batteries every few years. In my experience with the many UPS systems I've owned, batteries typically last only 2–3 years, and this unit uses two of them. Replacing them is a simple process that only requires removing two screws and taking off the front panel. This time, however, when the unit displayed an error code, installing new batteries didn't solve the problem. It turned out that the internal charging circuit had failed, so the batteries were no longer being charged. Based on my experience, the charging system seems to be one of the weaker points of this model. Even so, I decided to purchase another one because the original unit gave me about seven years of reliable service, which I think is very reasonable for its price. The new unit arrived very well packaged, as shown in the photo. Setup was straightforward—just plug it in, turn it on, allow the batteries to fully charge, and then connect your equipment. Overall, I'm happy with this UPS. No product lasts forever, and getting seven years of dependable service from a reasonably priced unit is more than acceptable in my opinion. That's why I didn't hesitate to buy another one.

Purchased this CyberPower unit about month ago. Have 2008 MacPro 8 core 3. GHZ fully loaded internally that was running for last couple years along with assorted Monitors-(2), printer etc. Had been using an APC 1500 & APC 1000- splitting various thing around plugged in to either one to share load. A MDD dual processor was in the mix but it was always on the opposite power supply, not both on one APC unit. For the last 3 yrs have been enduring endless stupidity with these APC power supplies. They would shut down randomly & repeatedly EVEN if the MacPro was not the one on that particular power UPS.Although for the most part - the UPS that was on the MacPro would shut down. You could switch a light on in another room- even a 1 bulb 75 watt could essentially trigger one of the 2 APC units to shut down as if they were overloaded. They were not. House is newer & wired correctly with 12 gauge/20 amp romex wire everywhere for any normal 110v outlets & 8 gauge 50 amp for 220v outlets & 200 amp service. The 2 power supplies are on their own line by themselves-nothing else. I am very familiar with house wiring & have rewired several homes I've owned. All wiring in house is up to snuff done properly. I tolerated this nonsense with these APC for years. They made absolutely no sense. I was aware at some point & positively as of recent reading that the 2008 MacPro's had PFC power supplies in them & that they would prefer pure sine wave power- as house current is. Even with that knowledge it still made no senses as to the random-regular weekly shutdown on the APC units with the computer asleep not even trying to wake or even having A TRUE power outage. The batteries checked out ALWAYS and if not hooked up to computer would work fine. If computer was awake & cut power they would hold system for as many minutes long as they were expected to. No problem. Just if asleep- turn light on anywhere in house- units sometimes/randomly cut out. If house current off & wake computers units shut down. Stupid really. Whats the point of the power supply ? (sounds like I am reviewing the APC's not CyberPower-right ?)Finally my MP had 8Gb of ram out of 16GB go bad. Had it replaced and I said that's it. I mean really- the APC power supplies were shutting down on a almost weekly basis & there wasn't even any power failures- the units themselves were THE power failures. Did as much research as possible regarding PFC power supplies & chose the CyberPower PFC 1500 unit. Cost more than the similar NON pure sine wave APC units. But cost quite a bit less than the Pure sine wave APC units. Who knows why APC charges so much for pure sine wave units. But after using their product probably for nearly 15 yrs- I was done. The CyberPower unit is a GREAT unit. Have read various reviews about the power switch(on unit-on/off & menu) etc problem some are having with it-I don't get the problem. It is a bit of a different technique how the button operates- but I picked it up quickly. The current power draw in numbers of watts as well as load capacity being used on the LCD display is great. You have real-time readout if you chose to, as to those numbers. It's like having Kill-A-Watt meter always on. You get to see the basic power fluctuations of your components. The unit is very compact- somewhat smaller than the APC 1500/1000 units. Right now connected with MacPro w/4 Hitachi 7200 rpm 64MB cache 3TB drives internal, ATI/Apple 5870 video card- w/3 24" monitors, epson 3800 printer, external OWC QX2 raid case w-4 hitachi 7200 rpm 32 MB cache 2TB drives & 2008 8 core MacPro booted off of that raid case along with MBP early 2011-17" plugged in but asleep, DSL modem, Dlink 8 port gigabit ethernet hub, 5th Gen AirPort extreme, MDD G/4 plugged in but off, the CyberPower shows a load of about 564 watts. That draw is confirmed accurate(slightly less actually for CyberPower unit itself not being in mix) if all were disconnected from CyberPower unit and plugged in- instead to the Kill-A=Watt meter. Everything asleep around 54 watts draw. I can switch ANY combination of light/appliance/central a/c /55" plasma/electric 220v clothes dryer/3.5HP 220v air compressor/ 5500watt electric heater- 500 gallon spa w/dual pumps etc in any combination on or off with computers asleep, awake, getting awake, going to sleep. UPS functions PERFECTLY & as expected- stellar performance. NO random shutdowns-nothing. Cut power to unit while computers asleep-no problem. You know the conclusion here -right? Pro's * Economical, compact, nice looking * PFC compatible- Pure Sine Wave unit. * Operates flawlessly * Cheaper than APC pure sine wave units * Power consumption/load LCD is very useful if you like that sort of thing-I do * 3yr warranty -same as APC Cons * Cost more than NON PFC compatible/Pure Sine Wave units * CyberPower warranty/service- unknown quality yet. APC was/had excellent service Conclusion. Highly recommended, especially if you have any of the MacPro's. I imagine some on PC side have units that are PFC and would require pure sine wave to operate a UPS on those computers properly also. I will not ever buy a UPS that is not a pure sine wave unit again.

CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave So good, I bought 2! UPS systems in this class can easily cost more. I have had poor experience with APC systems in this range, so I gave CyberPower a shot. First one I bought for all my network equipment. I bought the optional network card as well. I have a couple routers attached, several WiFi Mesh base units attached by PoE router, laptop, NAS and a couple other items. I get 1 hour or more of uptime! (YMMV, yada yada) All the items I have attached amount to about 40% load if they are all on at the time. The 2nd UPS I bought about a year later for my home entertainment stuff - TV, stereo and a couple miscellaneous network items. Also gets about 1 hour uptime. No net card on the 2nd one, I wanted to test connecting it to HomeIt via HomeBridge and RPi. I don't need to manage these UPSs on a regular basis. We live in the mountains and power can be flaky. I wanted to have some way to monitor utility power when I was at work. The NIC adapter is perfect for that. I think it is a little on the $$ side, but has been worth it. Plugs right in and easy to configure. I started out with a 1 year promotional subscription to their service, but don't really need it. I still get power change notifications even without the subscription. When I get a power out notification I know I have about 1 hour of uptime before I need to turn on the generator. I did get the other CyberPower UPS to hook up pretty easily to my RPi unit running HomeBridge, with NUT UPS plugin. NUT can have a reasonably steep learning curve. I did get it working, but haven't really had the need to play with it too much since I still have the other UPS with the NIC. FWIW, I already had the RPi unit in place for a bunch of other IoT integrations with HomeKit - I would not go that route just for UPS management! ;P A word about generators: Most UPS systems will not play nicely with your standard portable open frame generator, regardless of how large/stable it is. It's the shape of the stepped wave that can often fool the UPS causing it to trip on. The only foolproof way around that is to 1) Get an online UPS system at 3-5 times the cost of line-interactive 2) get an inverter generator. Don't get too fooled by 'generator' modes on line-interactive or standby UPS types. Those modes may help, but in my experience it will not work 100% of the time. Initially I had a standard Champion 7kw open frame delivering power to whole house. Performance was rock solid voltage and frequency delivery without fluctuation. These CyberPower systems worked off the generator about 75% of the time, tripping on the rest of the time. I have a couple APC systems with 'generator' mode that would have nothing to do with the generator - they would trip instantly even in 'generator' mode. Still, this was not stable enough for me. My solution was to get the inverter generator - a 9kw Westinghouse delivering power to the whole house. It was actually cheaper than getting an online UPS equivalent to this CyberPower! Ultimately it wasn't just the lower cost, but the versatility and stability of delivering super clean pure sine to the whole house. Better for everything inside. Zero issues, of course, with these CyberPwoer UPSs. They just see the generator output as regular utility power.

My PC Setup (for reference) • GPU: RTX 5090 • CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K • PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 13 – 1600W • RAM: DDR5 8000 • Storage: Samsung 9100 Gen5 SSD • Monitor + High-end gaming system UPS Performance I purchased this UPS to protect my high-end gaming PC and decided to test it under real load. Idle desktop power draw: ~260W PUBG gameplay: ~630 Maximum spike I observed: ~820W Battlefield 6 heavy scenes: ~820W Maximum spike I observed: ~870W The UPS handled everything perfectly. No overload warnings, no beeping, and it stayed in ON-LINE mode the entire time. I also tested a power-loss scenario by unplugging the UPS from the wall while the PC was running. The system instantly switched to battery and kept my PC and monitor running without any interruption. Estimated runtime during the test was around 25 minutes at light load, which is more than enough time to safely save work or shut down the system. Conclusion If you have a powerful gaming PC and want reliable protection against power outages, voltage drops, or spikes, this UPS works extremely well. Even with a very demanding system like mine, it handled the load without any issues. Respect to the CyberPower team !

I ordered this UPS because I wanted one for my custom built PC and its peripherals. Fortunately, I found the 900W/1500VA when it was a lightning deal and ordered it immediately to take advantage of the savings. The first thing I noticed when it was delivered was that it was much heavier than it looks, it made sense though since this is essentially a car battery (lead-acid) in a different form. The second thing I noticed after I opened it was that it had a strong smell to it, after I plugged it in the smell went away after about a day. The smell only comes back when the UPS switches to battery mode and the internal fan goes on. I think that it may go away if I left it on battery mode for a while but I have not gotten to testing it yet. The sticker says to charge it for 8 hours before use to fully charge it but mine was about 80% charged when I received it and plugged it in. In order to turn it on, you have to hold the power button (instead of just pressing it) and then let off after 1 short beep. In order to turn it off you have to do the same process but it instead of letting off after 1 beep, you let off after 2 short beeps. There is an LCD screen on the front of the unit and the top half shows constant information about the battery capacity, load, and whether it is connected to the outlet or running on battery power. There are 10 information displays that you can cycle through on the bottom half: 1. Input Voltage 2. Output Voltage 3. Output Frequency 4. Output Power in Watts 5. Output Power in Volt-Amperes 6. Output Power in Percent Watts to Maximum Wattage 7. Output Power in Percent VA to Maximum VA 8. Battery Charge in Percent 9. Estimated Run Time in Minutes 10. Number of Events (Times switched to Battery Power) The included manual states the other button functions such as next, previous, keep display on, etc. There are 12 total outlets, 2 front USB ports for charging, 5 for surge protection and another 5 for surge protection with backup battery power. There is a input and output for coax and ethernet cables and an output for USB B and Serial connector. The unit comes with a USB B male to A male cable, a coax cable, and telephone cable as well.I don’t use the coax cable but I do use the ethernet input and output, as far as I’ve noticed it doesn’t slow down the connection at all and it feels like the UPS isn’t even there. I also use the USB connection to plug into my computer and use the PowerPanel software I downloaded from CyberPower’s website to monitor the UPS from my computer desktop. I found that the software isn’t as accurate as the LCD screen on the UPS itself but there are some extras found in the application that isn’t on the unit. These extras include but aren’t limited to: 1. The ability to set the sensitivity to low, medium, or high so that you can choose what the difference in voltage relative to the AC outlet is for the unit to switch to battery power 2. Setting whether to keep the computer on as long as possible (i.e. run until 5 minutes left on battery) or to conserve the battery life of UPS (i.e. run for 5 minutes on battery). 3. Being able to schedule when to turn on and turn off the computer at an exact day and approximate time. I currently have my desktop and monitor connected to it and the estimated running time at full load on both is about 15 minutes which is more than enough time to properly shut down my machine. I may have to set the sensitivity lower because it switches to battery power whenever the clothes dryer is initiated but everything else works fine. I do not have an oscilloscope so I can’t comment on the sine wave output but from the other pictures posted it looks and functions fine for my use. It features Active Power Factor Correction and that works well with my power supply as well. Overall, this is an excellent UPS and I would recommend it to anyone who needs backup battery power for sensitive devices, just be aware of the initial smell that comes with the unit and you will be satisfied.

Normally I don't get pure sine if I expect to be drawing very low power vs what the power supply is rated at since I figure it won't stress the caps that much and the runtime will still be reasonable. Recently though I purchased a bunch of small computers that I expect to have lit up much of the time pulling much closer to their power brick limits and I also am sizing the UPS closer to the max load (about 700 watts or so from a 1000 watt UPS) so decided to go with this pure sine UPS. UPSes are very helpful since one of my locations regularly experiences brown outs and brief power drops, generally for less than a minute and I have long running compute jobs that I do not want interrupted and I don't want my power supplies thermally stressed any more than necessary during what may amount to a few hundred power losses over the course of 5-10 years. I purchased two of these units and have not evaluated any of their features as I don't care about that much, but placed each of them fully charged under 700 watt resistive loads. At 2/3 of rated power with ideal loads the units with fully charged batteries brand new only had 2 minutes of run time. The screen says 6 or 7 minutes when power is first pulled but then drops drastically, getting only a third of what it 'estimates', as if the batteries are worn out crap. Of course looking at the specs they also indicate it should run like 2.5 minutes at 1000W which no way is that happening. Maybe you'll get 60 seconds, I didn't test it as I don't need to run max load and would never size that close to rated capacity. My conclusion, since I have two brand new units that behave identically, is that the batteries are likely brand new OEM and are not crap but are nut sufficiently large to meet Cyberpower marketing claims. Either I got a batch of crap OEM batteries, or more likely the marketing 'specs' and the controls in the unit are totally way off for run time. That being said, even if the units stand up to my load with older batteries for one minute they will probably be adequate to cover 95% of my power events and that's probably the case for most folks connected to a low quality power grid. If you want to protect against long power drops though and need time to shut down a computer pulling say 700 watts or more, you'll probably want an automated shutdown that can hit the deadline just to make sure they can flush everything from ram and shut down quickly enough to prevent data corruption of typical cheap consumer file systems and drives.

I started my UPS journey with an APC unit. That one was faulty and would not charge the battery. So, after getting a refund, I ended up getting this unit instead to protect my unraid server from brief power outages. This has been HUGE, as a power outage for that machine meant I had to run a scan that takes over 24 hours to ensure no data was corrupted. This has already saved me around 10 times in the last year I have owned it. The hardware I have it hooked up to is as follows: Intel 8700, GTX 1080, 7 HDDs, and 4 SATA SSDs. I also have the primary router and some switches powered by this UPS to prevent the wifi from going down. Last week, there was an accident that left power sporadic. I did not feel it was safe to turn on my main systems after the third intermittent power loss, so naturally, I had enough and bought a second one for my main setup. I was worried that I would overpower it as I am hooking it up to two fairly powerful PCs, but it has yet to reach full load even when pushing while gaming. In terms of my setup, here is the hardware and software I'm rocking that is connected to the battery. Audio and Media streaming PC: Hardware: Ryzen 9 3900x, GTX 1050Ti, AVerMedia GC573 Live Gamer 4K HDR, 850W PSU. Software: This system manages my audio, runs discord, and captures footage from various cameras and capture cards in OBS. Sometimes this requires a Windows VM if I am running both of my DSLRs. Main PC: Hardware: Ryzen 9 9950x, RTX 5080, 1200W PSU Software: I primarily run 4k games and creative software for graphic design. So, pretty much the Adobe suite, some light 3D modeling for 3D printing, Affinity, and Fontlab. I am typically multitasking pretty heavily with many of these open at the same time. My AMP/DAC I also have the Fosi Audio K7 hooked up to this, mostly just to prevent my headphones from dying if I lose power.

Change of heart, I am going to give them 5 stars because their technical support was EXCELLENT. CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS System, 1500VA/1000W, 12 Outlets, AVR, Mini Tower Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC $209.95 6-18-2020 On May 26, 2020 I bought a CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD 1500VA UPS SYSTEM. For over twenty years I have always bought APC UPS backup units. I have had excellent results. One of the major features about an APC UPS unit, 700-1500VA size unit is that it always came with an excellent manual and a CD disk with the software to interface with the computer. With that software interface you knew for instance when there were abnormalities, remaining life of the battery, etc. The manual was always detailed and well written. With the CyberPower 1500 VA unit you get none of this. All you get in the way of documentation is a large sheet of paper that has the “instructions.” The writing is on both sides of this single large sheet. The print is so SMALL that it was necessary to go to the UPS and enlarge as much as I could to make it readable. CHEAP, CHEAP. What did CyberPower save? Perhaps 25 cents per customer? Shaft the customer to make 25 cents more for the stock holders and CEO. And the large sheet of paper is actually devoid of any meaningful instructions. I looked for the data connection to go from the UPS to the computer so as to interface with the computer and give you key information and status of the UPS. Finally I discovered a USB socket. So I plugged a USB cable from the UPS to the computer. I was expecting something to come up on the monitor showing that the cable was installed and “speaking” to the computer. NOTHING. So, I have no real way of knowing if the battery is fully charged or not, whether there has been a power interruption, etc. With the APC PowerChute Personal Edition unit I had excellent software support and display showing everything I needed to know concerning the condition of the UPS. That software is still on the computer. Finally I did go to their website and called the “help line” number. I did get to technical support. They were helpful and explained that the software needed to be downloaded from their site. OK. So I did this. But where in their large “user manual” microscopic print did it mention that the software had to be downloaded? Talk about being indifferent to your customer's needs. For about a month now the CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD 1500VA UPS has been running just fine. It appears to be doing its job. I’ve decided to rate them 4 stars rather than five because I think their “User’s Manual” is useless and a CHEAP SHOT at the customer. I would suggest CyberPower hire one of the many now unemployed English professors and have the guy write up a decent User’s Maual in the tradition of APC. Why set yourself up to be a “cheapskate” supplier when probably your equipment is very good, well priced, and your software interface, once downloaded and installed is excellent. Just hire that unemployed English professor and get a decent manual written.