Bought a new APC UPS today.
I have been having problems lately.. at least once every day or two everything plugged into my old APC battery unit would shut down (receiver, TV, ps3, ect.) and then come right back on. This would happen in the middle of a movie or game and was really annoying (not to mention probably bad for my electronics). The old one was only rated at 500VA/300W and was about 4-5 years old. I suspect that the Power strip was causing the problems (breakers never flipped in the back room). Hopefully this won't happen anymore with the new APC. It also looks pretty freaking cool with the lighted info screen.
I bought an
APC 1500VA 865 Watt unit. It was on sale at staples for $169.99.
Also, as a bonus it has a power save feature that allows me to plug my receiver into the "Master" input and my subwoofer into the "Secondary" input so that my ep500 shuts off when my receiver is turned off. I haven't took effort to hook a 12 v trigger cable up to my ep500 and denon so it is nice to finally let my sub power off.
