I have reasonably poor reliability at my house, in terms of how frequently the power cycles. For my important electronics, I have a set (3) of full-sized CyberPower units that work well for my boys' computers upstairs, my computer downstairs and the LAN/AV equipment. I have a Motorola Vonage box that sits in the garage so that it can be tied into the house's phone lines. The problem comes when the power trips and the cable boxes go off-line. What happens is that the Motorola box connects to the LAN first and disrupts (somehow, don't ask me) the ability for the FiOS cable boxes to get their proper IP addresses. So the cable boxes just cycle until I unplug the Motorola box, reset the router, wait until all the cable boxes connect, then plug back in the Motorola box. Annoying that this is an issue in the first place, but easily solved if the Vonage box never went offline to begin with (router stays online with my existing UPS setup).
Why is this the cheapest UPS that I can find - $39.95 on Amazon?
What I want is an inexpensive (~$20, half the above price) single outlet UPS that can support a small draw for a couple of hours or even less time. Why doesn't this already exist? I can't be the only one wanting something like this.
Perhaps this should be a Kickstarter campaign?
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