CyberpowerBR1200ELCD-UK BRICs Series, 1200VA/720W, 6 UK Outlets (3 Surge only, 3 UPS and Surge), 1 USB Charging Port, AVR, Brick Format

Arrived about a month ago, packaging showing some signs of heavy handling/minor damage, but product appeared in good condition. Word of caution, at 8 kgs it is quite a heavy object and I'd strongly recommend to ensure the product is shipped on its own, especially not with fragile items. Perhaps leave a day or two in between until other items have been dispatched, or later purchases done after dispatch.Installation was easy with good instructions given. Take care of the warnings; there are plenty in the manual, but nothing to worry about as long as directions followed. Some deal with actions that would be really stupid, like connecting a 2kW hoover or a 3kW kettle, which draw several times as much power as it can deliver (but I'd imagine some people would thoughtlessly try to make it work??). The only thing I didn't get clearly immediately was that to power it on, one needs to press the power button continuously throughout a long beep, then a short beep notifies it is enabled and lights go on.The display is informative and the manual very extensive on what the different symbols mean. One feature I love is the power draw in percentage, which had me amazed on the actual power draw for different devices. I am not sure about it displaying input/output voltage above 240V, which is somewhat higher than it should be (230V).It's output performance appears quite adequate, seeing the difference on devices like my speakers. Previously, when on standby, they would wake up if I'd turn my kitchen light on, clearly the described ripples in the electricity grid. After connecting to the UPS, this no longer happens.In terms of protection, I've seen an unusual amount of power outages in the month since receiving it. First was a lightning strike that knocked off the electricity in the whole valley where I live, as far as I could see. May have involved a significant surge. Devices drawing 25-30% of its capacity kept working (I saw the lightning strike as I was watching from a lil' distance), and no disruption was noticed. Second outage was a few days ago for about 15-20 minutes. The alarm woke me up, eventually, in a nice manner. It consists of a double short beep, repeated about four times a minute. Clearly audible, but not intrusive. I had no desire to disable it. Again, no disruption to working devices. Third time was this morning, an outage lasting only about a second, yet no disruption to anything connected.Device's own display shows a runtime of about 44 minutes on full battery charge with about 11% power draw.Software standards are appropriately adhered to, seeing that recent Debian-based Linux OS that I'm running on a modern machine picked up the presence and status of the UPS without need for user interaction (UPS needs to be connected to the computer using the included USB cable).The only downside on connectivity is that the telephone/modem protection ports do not support the standard BT connector (extension lead from socket), so that a (A)DSL splitter has to be placed between the socket and UPS. Result is that only either the telephone or the modem can be protected, unless seperate device is used. Other than that, this product performs well and is well worth paying for.

It's silent and runs cool aside from the whine from the coils and moderate heat when using the battery backup power.Everything works as intended, the software is lightweight and very easy to use, and it appears to be well made.

In common with most UPSs listed here, the runtime on battery isn't stated in the item description. I bought the smallest (420W) of these devices and at full power I'd expect 5 or 6 minutes of runtime. Enough for an immediate clean shutdown but not much else.As it happens, I bought this to protect my broadband and some other small items (smarthome hubs and a couple of raspberry Pis) so I'm mostly running at about 10% capacity and would therefore expect this to power everything for maybe 50 minutes. Long enough to keep going through the average power cut.Aside from battery capacity this seems like a decent unit. Plug it in, plug equipment into it, and off you go. The USB interface connects nicely to a Windows machine and the software lets you perform a clean shutdown when the power goes off.I actually have mine connected to a Pi Zero running Network UPS Tools, with the monitoring data fed into Home assistant. NUT lets you schedule shutdowns as you need, if you don't mind Linux-level config file hacking, and home assistant provides nice monitoring of power consumption and estimated runtime on battery.Overall I like this unit. There aren't many cheaper devices and there are a lot of more expensive devices, so this seems like good value for money to me. I've only had it for a few weeks so can't yet comment on long term reliability.

Arrived with a dead/dying battery. The display showed that the battery was 90% full after charging it for a few minutes (which is odd as the manual says to let it charge for up to 8 hours), however, the UPS would only last a few seconds after shutting off the socket, or in some cases shut off immediately and not turn back on while playing a constant loud pitched noise. This means that either:- it arrived with a dead/dying battery- the battery display is wrongEither way, I can't trust this UPS. Also, this is advertised as working on Linux, however, PowerPanel doesn't work on Fedora 41 (just shows "No such file or directory", and starting the pwrstatd service fails). I understand that Linux support is pretty much always flaky and there are a bajillion distros, but don't have high hopes if you want automatic shutdown on Linux.

Excellent UPS - works well with Windows 11Had several power outages recently (during the storms) and has kicked in immediately and without fuss, safely shutting my pc down each time.