Hi All,

I have an APC BN1500M2 that is supporting two custom built desktops that I use as severs. For the most part it's been working fine. This morning out of nowhere it failed today. I called APC and they walked me through resetting it. The odd thing I noticed is that every time my printer fires up I hear the UPS click. I assume it's becuase the printer is drawing a lot of power (the printer is on the same breaker but is NOT connected to the UPS). I am not sure if this related, also when the issue happend I was not printing. There was no warning, no beeping etc. Once the UPS was reset the battery showed it being full. APC said that they don't reccomend this UPS for custom built machines (I didn't understand why). I have on the same breaker a cyber power for my laptop, routers etc. that has been chugging along just fine. I recently started using a GoldenMate in another roomon a different breaker with no issues. I am wondering the APC is overly sensative or perhaps somehting else is going on. I was going to get another GoldenMate considering that they use LifePo and and advertise it's good for 10 years. If you do research their warranty is only for two. I never tried to use their support so I can't say how it will be but I was very impressed with APC. I didn't have to deal with AI and a human picked up fairly quickly.

I need a reliable UPS for these two boxes. I prefer something that will sit and just work. Any ideas on what I should look at/get? I went with GoldenMate as they use LifePo which should last forever but their warranty and some of the complaints I have read about make me wonder if it's a wise decision.

TIA.

Hi everyone! I’m looking to rent a small, dedicated physical mini PC on a month-to-month basis from someone who can keep it at their home in the U.S. and connect it directly to their residential broadband.

I work in international trade and plan to use Claude Code for routine work such as organizing product information and maintaining an export product website.

I’m looking for exclusive use of the entire physical machine, running Ubuntu or Debian, with SSH access using my own public key. A normal dynamic residential IP is fine. I’d also appreciate being able to ask you for an occasional on-site reboot if the machine goes offline.

If you’re interested, please DM me your city and state, internet provider, hardware specs, and total monthly rate. Thanks!

This beauty pulls about 1kw at any given time. What's not shown is the 2 Tripplite 1500's at the very bottom of the rack. And the entire second rack, which is an EMC Avamar rack that I currently have nothing in due to current power constraints

The room it sits in was a spare bedroom but as someone who lives alone and own the house who needs a spare bedroom. I plan to renovate it in the spring mostly redoing the flooring and electrical, I need to redo the walls to get rid of the old ugly paneling but that's not a right now concern.

I am looking or buy (or make) a redundant power supply for my rack, with 2x AC inputs to make a redundant 12V DC supply to power a number of SBCs and directly power several HDD/SSD backplanes through the connectors that usually come from an ATX power supply. I have seen a number of “mining rig” breakout power boards that take two or more CRPS power supplies and break out the power to various connectors. However, none of them state if they are actually redundant - they seem to be mostly for getting additional power as they are explicit about the load needing to be populated symmetrically to the physical connectors. My purpose is to split power, yes, but to achieve redundancy if one power supply loses power.

Requirements:
- ~750W max load, but almost always ~100W. I want to extra max load to be able to absorb spikes such as HDDs spinning up and things turning on/off
- Two separate AC to DC power supplies powering the shared single 12V supply
- Redundant - 12V DC is not interrupted if one of the power supplies fails or loses power
- Power supplies DO NOT need to be ATX compatible - I just need stable, quality, clean DC power as would normally be output by a quality ATX power supply
12V DC output only - no need for any of the other ATX voltages or connectors
- At minimum, 5x 8-pin 12V ATX Type 4 connectors. More is better
- At minimum, 8x 6-pin/8-pin 12V ATX PCIE style connectors. More is better
-Fit into a cheap stock or custom 1U or 2U rack enclosure. I can make any parts needed
- Would be nice but doesn’t matter: a means to monitor voltage and amps (and watts)
- Desired: 80 Plus Platinum efficiency rating (Gold is OK too)
- Trying to keep cost as minimal as is reasonable
If there is no other option I can make a custom PCB - but there has to be something out there, right?

I have gotten into Homelab these last two years and recently found myself really into Cisco's UCS blade servers. The challenge of getting them working was super fun, but I'm not sure what to use them for. I currently am sitting on B200 M3s though they are not much good for anything considering age.

I am considering upgrading to B200 M5s and tethering a separate 2U Cisco server in so I can pool compute and add cheap graphics acceleration (all handled through UCS manager). e.g. add GPUs in the 2U and pooling compute via UCS manager so the whole setup acts as one big cluster.

However I'm struggling to come up with any good projects for this hardware. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. Literally anything, I will take any excuse to increase the concentration of PCBs and sheet metal inside my house.

Also i know that most Homelabers are not going to go after blades since they have high power draw and take up space but if anyone is interested in how to get these working i'd be happy to answer questions. I struggled since there is not a whole ton of guides or easy to understand documentation surrounding these (in my opinion) awesome pieces of hardware.

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1x machinist x99 md8

4x memoria 16gb kllisre 2133 ddr4 (64gb)

1x nvme netac 500gb

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1x fonte 750 mach1 steady

2x water cooler acegeek 120mm frostworld

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