Is Tripp Lite a trusted brand for a UPS? [closed]

Solution 1:

Part of our office space is leased out to another company. There are a lot of power issues at the site and obviously both companies have the same primary supply. That other company refuses to pay APC prices. Instead they opt for lower priced units of various brands. In the 15 or 16 months I've worked there that company, which only has a staff of about 20, has had 3 UPSs die as a result of the surges, spikes and dips we experience regularly. The company I work for has always used APC and so far they've never had one die. Long term it's we who are paying less. What more is there to tell?

Solution 2:

Tripp Lite has been around for ~80 years doing power related devices. They have been making UPSes for around twenty-some years. My first power bar happened to be a Tripp Lite, and it was built like a tank, metal case, RFI/EMC filtering built-in, resettable circuit breaker. I've also owned a couple of Tripp Lite UPSes, and used them professional as well. I've always been satisfied with them.

They don't target the consumer market, as far as I know their core business is more industrial then APC, which is not a premium UPS manufacturer in my experience. Professionally, I've seen nearly twenty APC UPSes that the controller electronics or transformers die, as opposed to battery failures. The environments were harsh, with large diesel generators used for backup power source when commercial power failed, and some environments were high ambient temperature work areas (Middle East), but UPS failures shouldn't be frequent if you don't abuse (overload, not ground) them.

Brands like Leibert, or Powerware (now Eaton), or Tripp Lite are brands I prefer for over 1 kVA UPSes.

Update Jan 2015 Since writing this original answer I have seen Tripp-Lite product lines for consumer or Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) target markets. As highlighted in a Jan 2015 product teardown (slides 11-21) of cheap power bars at Tom's Hardware, these consumer oriented (price sensitive) models are not necessarily of the same quality as their industrial and enterprise product lines.

Solution 3:

You'll have to pry my APC UPSes out of my cold dead hands. No I don't think APC is just brand differences, I think it's quality of components.