APC BE350U 350VA Back-ups Es

by APC

Product Details

Product Manual [84kb PDF]

• Item Weight: 9.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006HYUC
• Item model number: BE350U
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 8, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Protect your data and hardware from power outages and surges with the APC BE350U battery backup and surge protector. The BE350U offers six standard three-prong outlets (three battery backup and three surge protection), enough for most home computer setups. It features a USB interface for convenient installation of the included safe system shutdown software, designed to protect your data.

The BE350 will provide reliable battery backup for 1.6 minutes at full load (200 watts) or for 8.1 minutes at half load (100 watts). An audible alarm will sound when the UPS is activated.

What's in the Box
CD with software, cord management straps, free trial of anti-virus, firewall, email privacy, system recovery and online backup software, USB cable, user manual, wall-mounting template, warranty information

Product Description

BACKUPS ES 350VA 120V SBY-USB

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware!, November 23, 2003

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A. BERNAY-ROMAN (Jupiter, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: APC BE350U 350VA Back-ups Es (Electronics)

If you have a cable modem for broadband connection to the internet, your unit will not be covered by the APS warranty on this device. Lightning hit near our house and the motherboard plus router got fried. The cable modem stayed intact and we filed a claim with APS. They denied it saying backend surges through the cable may have caused the damage (even though the modem wasn't hurt?).

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great (llow cost) UPS, May 24, 2004

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J. Dore "jrdwiz" (Exeter , NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: APC BE350U 350VA Back-ups Es (Electronics)

I bought 5 of these for the computers in the house. I would have got better ones but the house has an auto generator so all I need is about 30 seconds of power. I noticed in another review the person saying there unit was going of and on battery mode even when the power was still on... To my understanding this unit detects (dirty power) and when it detects it, it will then stop accepting ac power. I think the software it comes with allows you to turn the feature off or even turn the sensitivity up.

38 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars went belly-up after one month, October 28, 2003

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Professor (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: APC BE350U 350VA Back-ups Es (Electronics)

After one month of use, it now randomly beeps and randomly kicks the power off (you can hear the relay inside the unit going up and down). Doesn't matter if anything is plugged in or not.

Another notable: the on-off switch on the unit does NOT turn off the 3 outlets that are surge protected. Most computer equipment now are vampires (draw power even when turned off). I personally prefer to cut the power to my computer equipment when not in use.

I have had better luck with other APC products.

Update Aug. 2004: The unit magically got better. Now it only does the random shutdowns once a month or so. I would raise the rating a notch or two if it allowed me to.