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<blockquote data-quote="Jim King" data-source="post: 50570" data-attributes="member: 156">Re: Digital Consoles w/UPS and GeneratorsI&#039;ve had that problem with the APC home/office UPS&#039;s before in a computer environment. Sometimes the battery wears out and the whole thing gets glitchy. But more often, the power feed to the UPS dips or jumps in voltage. The lower-end APC units don&#039;t correct for voltage changes for you very well. They do great taking over if the power drops completely, but they don&#039;t smooth out things very well when the power is just dirty or likely to dip to 100v once in a while. Different equipment handles that dirtiness better and worse -- sounds like your LS9 is sensitive to it.On my end, I&#039;ve started using CyberPower UPS systems for both computers and audio FOH. Everywhere I had voltage dip problems with the APC units, the cyberpowe units handled it fine. Their AVR units do a nice job or regulating the voltage even on their low-end models. APC does it well on their high-end models, but I&#039;ve not found their low end models to do nearly as good a job as the Cyberpower ones. Look at the SmartApp ones for rackmount, or the AVR series for desktop.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jim King, post: 50570, member: 156"] Re: Digital Consoles w/UPS and Generators I've had that problem with the APC home/office UPS's before in a computer environment. Sometimes the battery wears out and the whole thing gets glitchy. But more often, the power feed to the UPS dips or jumps in voltage. The lower-end APC units don't correct for voltage changes for you very well. They do great taking over if the power drops completely, but they don't smooth out things very well when the power is just dirty or likely to dip to 100v once in a while. Different equipment handles that dirtiness better and worse -- sounds like your LS9 is sensitive to it. On my end, I've started using CyberPower UPS systems for both computers and audio FOH. Everywhere I had voltage dip problems with the APC units, the cyberpowe units handled it fine. Their AVR units do a nice job or regulating the voltage even on their low-end models. APC does it well on their high-end models, but I've not found their low end models to do nearly as good a job as the Cyberpower ones. Look at the SmartApp ones for rackmount, or the AVR series for desktop. [/QUOTE]

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