CYBERPOWER BR700ELCD-UK Line-Interactive UPS 700VA/420W AVR
CYBERPOWER BR700ELCD-UK Line-Interactive UPS 700VA/420W AVR GreenPower Energy Saving Technology LCD USB UK Outlet type, Black
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| Dimensions: | 27.1 x 16.07 x 11.36 cm; 5.5 Kilograms |
| Model: | BR700ELCD-UK |
| Manufacture: | Cyberpower |
| Department: | Default Category |
| Dimensions: | 27.1 x 16.07 x 11.36 cm; 5.5 Kilograms |
| Origin: | China |
BR700ELCD-UK Line-Interactive UPS 700VA/420W AVR GreenPower Energy Saving Technology LCD USB UK Outlet type.
Working with QNAP NAS TS-453A. UPS is detected via included USB cable and NAS correctly reports battery level and estimates 40 minutes of power with nothing else connected.
Was Looking for a while for this back incase my power goes. Fusebox is in the garage, so if fuse trips had to hand wine the garage door. Now this just cuts in and in I go power back on. Just a reminder, get the 600 watt or higher this does the job just fine.
Easy to use and worked first time. Recommend downloading software to enhance operation.
This works extremely well. Saved me loss of data when a cooker caused the circuit to trip
Installation is straightforward and once you’ve worked it out from the rather sketchy instruction leaflet the display provides useful diagnostics. The instructions may have been adapted from a different model as they talk about having four UPS and four surge-protected outlets when there are of course only three of each. This may be why it doesn’t correctly describe how to shut the UPS off, as reviewed elsewhere.
Regarding the RJ11 protection, this will be useful to protect the incoming DSL connection and POTS line which is not likely to be replaced with FTTP by OpenReach any time soon.
Update:
I’ve now had a chance to check out the USB connectivity. The PowerPanel Personal software works as advertised and links to CyberPower’s PowerPanelCloud and thence to their mobile apps. If you were using the UPS to protect a Windows PC then the PC would have to be powered on permanently for it to forward alerts of course.
CyberPower provide a Linux daemon for x86 32-bit & 64-bit that links to their PowerPanelCloud service but I couldn’t find any ARM7/8 support for RPi. However as their service requires a subscription after the one-unit-only free trial ends that’s not what I’m using.
For my purposes, I installed the Linux NUT daemons and the usbhid-ups driver recognised the UPS and with a few tweaks I’m now getting email alerts about UPS events with status parameters from my file server and from a Pi3 for the other UPS. My OpenWRT router also supports NUT so in the absence of a Linux file server, the UPSes could be connected to that to generate email alerts.
The units are now fully charged and the router+switch+RPi3 one is registering 0% load with 120 minutes runtime. The router+switch+RPi4(with fan)+ three 3.5″ USB HDDs is registering 8% load (of a nominal 720W) but currently it’s runtime estimate is unstable, changing from 50 to 120 minutes.
Update 2:
After running the self-tests, the runtime estimation from the more loaded UPS has now stabilized at around 55 minutes.
I got this because it’s one of the cheapest line interactive UPS models from a decent company on Amazon. It delivered within a couple of days and arrived ready charged. It’s had several uses already to keep our CCTV DVR box working during electrical rewiring of the house. It managed to keep a 4 camera DVR from HikVision going for around 3-4 hours outlasting the second UPS unit (from APC) which powers the modem and other electricals ran out of battery, at which point we no longer had access to the live feed. Once power is restored is chargers itself back up, but simultaneously keeps power to the CCTV while charging itself. It’s also hot UK plugs so no need to find special cables like some of the other models in this price range.
Finally, it has an audible alert when it’s running the backup battery. I quite like that because it’s up in the loft so we’d have no way of knowing if it was working otherwise.
Only thing I don’t know is if it has a replaceable battery but at this price I’d take that as a bonus if it does.
I got this to power a NUC, QNAP TR004 and 24 inch monitor. The unit gets a little warm with the PC, RAID and monitor awake and shows 25 minutes runtime. There is a very quiet hum.
I have not verified the runtime but it certainly kept the system running long enough for me to shutdown the system when I had the the mains disconnected. There is a loud beep when the mains goes on or off and a louder hum while it is supplying power with mains input.
Windows 11 detected the UPS and showed the battey level even without installing the software (which can be downloaded from the internet) so it is obviously fully compatible and I assume it would detect a change in power source and initiate a shutdown even without the software.
I like that the unit can be turned on with the mains input disconnected.
One thing I would be wary of is that it says the software saves your open files and shuts down the system in the evnt of a power outage. I’m not sure about that as I haven’t tried it yet.
update: After installing the software, I set it to shut the system down after 5 minutes and it shut down after 5 minutes when I disconnected the mains input.
I think you have to use their cloud backup to get to save your data before shutdown though.
Great value back-up power but a little bit dated in as much as it has surge protected RJ11 ports for your landline or modem internet connection (who has an old-style modem these days?) Only 3 out of the 6 ports offer UPS which is a shame, I wouldn’t have thought it would be too difficult to make all 6 UPS capable. Software is easy to download and install but it doesn’t have an Ethernet or USB connection to the PC so I am not sure how the software is getting its information. Only 1 x USB -A port, USB -C as well would have been nice.
Now we get to the issue of turning it off… turning it on is easy, hold the button down until you hear a series of beeps and the display lights up then release the button. Turning it off is not so easy: You have to hold the button down until the display lights up, then release and then press the button again for about 2 seconds then release – it should then turn off, took me almost a week to master this so be warned.
In conclusion, a good back-up power supply for 2 PC’s and a screen, all of the sockets have surge protection. Given that we are now moving to VOIP phones the RJ11 ports are already redundant, an RJ45 port and cable to the PC would have been better. 1 x USB -A port…. well, they could have fitted a USB -C considering that USB -C has been with us for a while now. This device could do with being brought into the modern era, having said that, it does what it says on the box so I am happy with that. 4 Stars for the reasons stated. Despite its shortcomings, it is good value.
I was initially attracted to this product by its provision of three 3-pin plugs with outage protection, which suggested the PC, monitor and, most important of all, NAS would be protected and that I would not have to replace existing power cables with the “kettle-lead” variant which many UPSs required. (Kettle-leads are more space-saving but a damn nuisance to adopt.)
The UPS feels very solidly-made and well-designed, but I have yet to test it by unplugging from the wall. (My assumption has been that some time this winter UK power cuts will occur, with notice if we are lucky but quite possibly not.)
There are another UK three 3-pin sockets but they are not protected by the battery. The obvious question is what for? Probably for a laser-printer which you must NOT try to protect as (I believe) the peak current demand is far too high. But then, you don’t printers on all the time, do you? Currently, this product is very good value at under 120. The Cyberpower website and presentation are also very slick and reassuring.
I’ve decided to add the cost of the 1200va ups as insurance and today, 6 months after the purchase, I can share the data of of much this appliance saved my build from potential damage.
During six months I’ve experienced one blackout, and thanks to the software manger I was able to set that, in the event of the UPS running on battery, initialize an immediate shutdown of the pc.
But the most important part is the 80 events of Buck regulation for a total of 25 hours.
I’m no electrical engineer myself but if you have a quick look online and the buck activates when the input power gets closer to the highest voltage, regulating it.
Bought these to allow us to keep internet connectivity during a powercut. It lasted about 2 hours in testing, with a standard router plus a D-Link mesh controller plugged in. I was hoping to get three hours, but other than that this works great.
It is quite large, as most UPS’s are.
I chose this Cyberpower as it has GreenPower Technology, which ultimately extends the life of the UPS battery, but also because it has an LCD display that gives you quite a bit of useful information that the equivalent APC does not; it shows input and output voltage, it shows the current load and it shows the expected battery life on the current load.
I like it so much I’m about to swap my rack APC UPS for the Cyberpower unit!!
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.
During Storm Eunice we lost power for 32 hours and this device was a godsend. Sad to say it was only able to provide 3 hours of backup for the modem and phone base unit but that made a very big difference as we could make vital calls to family and the electricity company. Obviously if the power cut had happened at 3 am it would have run out before we woke up but at least we can now connect this unit to a small generator to keep it topped up if we have a long power outage.
It is quite heavy as it contains a lead/acid battery. Not all of the sockets are backed up – we could only connect 3 plugs but there are another 3 which are only surge protected.
PS You may be tempted to enable e-mail notifications via the software. Don’t, just don’t. I did, and was bombarded with e-mails. The battery status cycles between ‘charging’ and ‘fully charged’ every few seconds. I got an e-mail every time.
very good product for the money. have tested this on my gaming PC as well as many other lower drawing appliances. 3 battery protected sockets, and 3 standard surge protected sockets.
I bought this as a power back up for zoom meetings, as we regularly have power cuts. It successfully runs a PC, speaker & mic, wifi router, and 2 x 50″ screens for approx. 12 minutes giving me ample time to turn the power back on, or switch to a generator. no flicker or drop out detected when the mains are cut.
highly recommended for the price!
Routed the power for 2 x Synology NAS and 1 x PC through the UPS and end up with about 30 minutes of UPS Power should the mains fail. Used the supplied USB to connect my NAS to the UPS, the NAS recognised the UPS and the Synology DSM software allowed me to set up a ‘soft’ shutdown of 2 x NAS if the mains power was lost for more than 20 minutes. Raised a query with CyberPower about battery life/replacement and received a very quick reply stating that the battery was lead/acid and a replacement available ‘off the shelf’
Where we live, we often get a very brief power outtage of a few seconds. So I bought this to bridge this short timespan. However, we got a surprise today; for the first time since buying it, we ran the Battlesfront II game. This caused the power supply to start beeping, indicating overload, and to shut down. Even though we were on mains power!
So, it appears that when it says in the specs that it runs up to 700 Watts, this applies even when the mains power is working. This was a surprise to me, and it really isn’t made clear in any of the product description, user manual, or specs. So be aware of this limitation.
I’ve therefore given the product only 4*. If it ran to allow full mains availability whilst mains power is there, it would be 5*. I’ve chosen 4* because it’s possible that all other UPSs have the same limitation, so it would be unfair to penalise it. However, if the limit is unique to this device, I’d rate it as 2*. The manufacturers really should be clearer in their blurb.
The ethernet filter port does not support modern standards, it looks to be cat3 or cat5(not cat5e) so if you have a good connection to your house it will slow you down a lot (I would get 96mbps instead of the 895mbps available to my address) so it is an useless feature like that.
The rest of the product is good. Well built, good capacity and good software. It works as it should. I would still recomend i
I live in a rural area where sporadic 3 second power cuts happen with monotonous regularity and occasionally a full on power cut where a line is down. For years i have worried about my pc and have several times replaced my hdd almost certainly as a result of power ‘spikes’.
Since installing the CyberPower Bric my pc churns away without worries. I recently had a complete power out, my entire house was plunged into darkness but, not my pc which sat there comfortable without incident. I had more than ample time to save my work and shut down the pc (which is what i wanted).
The Bric whilst still delivering a small amount of power to the system beeped confidently and reported 98% power left. I did not test how long i could run my pc for as i have a 1000w Corsair psu and a BenQ 32″ monitor but it was more than enough time to save my work and, more importantly, my pc.
Good product, recommended.
Item arrived in a slight battered box. Upon reading instructions and plugging in I found it would turn off really fast after a power outage. Instructions say its good to go out of the box but be good to charge for 6 hours. It was reading 90% in the menus system. I left it on charge all night and 24 hours later tested it again. this is the 750 watt version. I plugged in a phone charger and a table lamp. total output 75 watts. Battery was dead in 30 seconds an unit shut down. Turned the mains power back on and amazingly the battery went from empty to 90% in a 30 second period. I knew this was wrong. I did contact the Amazon technical support. However they don’t tell you what to do but ask if you done something. I guess if they advise you to plug it in and it goes boom they are liable. So they ask have you connected your devices, have you turned it on. 40 minutes on phone and I gave up trying to get support. This is meant to be a plug in and forget device. No menus or fiddly stuff. Now build quality. It looks well made, battery rattled about inside. My unit made incredibly weird noises. Probably because it was faulty. USB function stopped when power of battery failed. IT IS VERY BULKY, 3 sockets with back up and 3 with surge protection. If it worked I would have been very happy and gave it 4 stars.
So good I bought a second. Realised it’s all well and good keeping the PC alive during a power cut, but we could also do with having our router active too.
Bought because our home has a tendency for the sockets to blow occasionally. Working from home this can be a pain.
Then for some reason our whole street/village has been print to full-on power cuts in the last few months so these have been a great help. From allowing me to continue working to really handy things like allowing us to have a lamp on during a power cut, even for just a short while as we sort out candles etc.
Seem to last a lot longer than the half an hour it says you’ll get, but I guess it depends on what you have plugged into it.
It’s also good that the alarm goes off to tell you when there’s a cut, so if you’re in bed it wakes you up. But you can shut off the alarm if necessary.
Choosing which uninterruptible power supply was no fun. Much advice on the internet, much out of date, and not exactly clear and helpful.. Some advice was to aim for a vertical unit as heat dissipation is better. I couldn’t find one in that form factor that I could afford. In the end I chose this CyberPower BR1000ELCD-UK. It comes with three uninterruptible sockets and three more anti surge sockets. Forget all that. I only use one socket into which goes the UK mains plug for my Synology disk drives. It is a heavy beast, which I find reassuring.
Installation is a piece of cake. Plug it into the mains. Plug your Synology power cord into the Cyberpower. Connect the two with a USB lead. Synology stuff is amazing. It finds the UPS and asks if you want to enable it. It even advises that it would expect this CyberPower unit to power the four drives for around 40 minutes. You can choose how long you want to run for before it shuts down. I only want a tidy shutdown so chose ten minutes.
Can you protect your disks from power failure as well as your PC? Sort of. Do some searching and you will find that there is some software you can get and install which will synchronise the CyberPower with your Synology and the Synology will then alert your PC.. It can be done but I decided to leave it for a rain day a long time in the future.
Does it work? My neighbour, also suffering from power failures, also bought an identical CyberPower unit. He cut the power and sure enough the Synology kept on going and alerted him to the power failure before shutting down, later, gracefully. I had to cut the mains power briefly to change a mains switch. Once I cut the power, there was a pleasing beep coming from the CyberPower indicating that it was doing its stuff. The beeping stopped when I reconnected power. Success.
If you’ve been contemplating an uninterruptible power supply, this one will do the job perfectly. Installation is a breeze. The unit is a bit smaller than a shoe box. There is a bonus – the battery is user replaceable when it dies of old age. This will save you some pennies vs. sending it to a service centre. Of course there has been no interruption to my house power supply since I installed it but I don’t mind. A UPS is like having an insurance policy. It’s there when you need it and otherwise you have peace of mind (knowing that your expensive disks will not be knackered in the event of a power interruption). Alas my UPS was not delivered by UPS. That would have made me smile even more.
I bought this as our power can be a little unreliable and my wife works from home as a designer so a power cut can cause her to lose work. She has 2 mac computers and an additional monitor plugged in. We’ve had 1 power cut since buying this and it kicked in immediately and so the computer didn’t crash meaning she had time to save her work.
Not tested it but it suggested 16 minutes run time on the battery.
Positives:
-Kicks in immediately and stops computers crashing giving time to save and switch off.
-Good value for money.
Negatives:
-It’s quite chunky and heavy
Other thing to note is that only 3 of the 6 plugs give battery power. The other 3 just act as an extension lead (with surge protection).
I have this hooked up to a 4 drive NAS, 2 x 25 inch monitors a mobile phone via one of the USB charging points and an i9 notebook. We work in an area with pretty poor electricity cables, a forest that seems to attract storm damage, and cables that enjoy falling to the ground when the wind blows. During the winter we lose power quite often – usually just a blip, but some times it lasts for a few hours. This CyberPower UPS has never missed a beat. My NAS just keeps running. It even keeps my notebook and Phone fully charged so that I have plenty of battery left to keep me running after the UPS runs out. (about 90 mins)
Just remember that 3 of the outlets only do surge protection and not UPS.
Does the job. I haven’t found any problems with it thus far after a few days. The software works fine, the power supply works as it should. There is a hum when the batteries kick in, but they kick in uninterrupted when I unplug the power. At that point my only concern is a safe shutdown. Depending on power load it estimates I’ll get 13-23 minutes use and I’m running a workstation doing audio production, so it can be CPU heavy though I’m running a fairly basic gfx card. That’s plenty to save and shut down safely.
The app will shut down the computer when the UPS hits a given percentage of remaining battery life which you can configure. Standard is 5% charge. It can also send you an email notification to let you know.
Overall, it seems to do the job, nothing to fault really.
I can’t rate the features as I’ve not had to contact Tech support, I don’t use the Wi-Fi capability (didn’t know it had one) nor sleep mode. It is running permanently and using the UPS sockets powers my CCTV system as well as my PC to which it is connected by a signal cable in addition to the power lead. The software runs seamlessly on the PC and I’ve only had the testing message since it was first powered up. Having looked at the report on mains power it has smoothed a number of peaks and covered a couple of momentary losses of power without blinking an eye! The software is set to automatically shut my PC down if mains the power is lost and there is only a limited amount of power in the batteries. I bought this UPS as we’d had a couple of loses of power due to weather affecting a sub-station and by living in the countryside we are more at risk of power loss than in an urban environment. Of course since installing the UPS we’ve not experienced a loss of power which would start the shut down process. I’ll be happy if it stays like that.
Anyway – this is one of the first products i’ve bought without fully researching what I needed and what was available, so partly my fault on the one main negative with this unit which is that I have 2 desktop computers which I want to protect from power-cuts and was hoping this would power down both PC’s, however, the problem is there is only one USB port so the software which you download from the website is only operational on 1 PC – so it will only safely shut down 1 PC.
Otherwise the UPS is great so far, the personal edition software works great on my Windows 10 machine, there are various parameters you can set for shutdown timings etc.
The software (as well as the display on the unit) gives detailed info of the battery status, voltages, expected power duration based on the items you have plugged in, should the power go off.
The UPS is doing what it’s designed to do – provides instant power when needed – it has a self test, however, it’s just as easy, and probably more reassuring, to test it by unplugging from the mains.
With both PC’s and monitors plugged in the expected battery run time is 32minutes in a power failure situation, with just one PC and monitor this increases to around 70mins.
Great product – shame about the poor packaging which prevented 5 stars.
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.
My reason for 4 starts is only because the Mac software isn’t signed. I would highly recommend them trying to find a way to make it available in the App Store if at all possible. But I suspect they can’t access the system level settings they need for power management. As such, for non technical users they may have a little learning curve to run the unsigned software.
Anyway, all that aside. The power bank kicks in as soon as power goes out. It reads out how long is left. It doesn’t have the worse footprint and is silent when ‘passing through’ power. During a cut, a buzzing can be heard but that is to be expected.
This is a great bit of kit and I plan to get another 1 or 2 for my entertainment centre when we move.
I’m glad I found CyberPower and I hope others will find this review useful. Especially with regard to the Mac functionality.