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8-Outlet Battery Backup UPS/Surge Protector

Choose the greenest and most popular desktop UPS model series in the world! APC's Back-UPS ES 550 protects your home or home office computer systems with battery backup power so you can work through power outages and guards against damaging power surges and spikes that travel along your utility and phone lines or coax cable. Designed for maximum efficiency and minimum environmental impact, the Back-UPS ES 550 can reduce your power bill by an average of $12 a year over competing models.

The most popular desktop UPS in the world!

When you're shopping for an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), know that APC's Back-UPS ES 550 offers outstanding value for protecting your home and home office computer systems. It provides battery backup power from four outlets that allow you to work through short and medium length power outages. And, four surge-protected outlets safeguard your equipment from damaging surges and spikes that travel along your utility and phone lines as well as coaxial cable. Even more features like audible alarms, LED status indicator, user replaceable battery, push-button reset circuit breaker, and plug-in transformer block spaced outlets make the Back-UPS ES 550 the perfect unit to protect your productivity from the constant threat of power outages and lost data. A USB data port enables computer communication between APC's award-winning PowerChute Personal Edition software and the Back-UPS, allowing a graceful, automatic computer system power down when there's an extended power outage.

Designed to save electricity

The Back-UPS ES 550 has been completely updated with a high efficiency charging system and a modern new look. The charging circuit is more efficient than any competing units in the same VA range, which lowers the overall cost of ownership, conserves power, and saves money on your electricity bill. The new high frequency design uses less copper, resulting in a smaller overall size with less plastic and needing less enegy to ship it. This unit can give you an electricity cost savings of up to $12 per year on average as compared to competing products. Actual savings will depend on your cost of power.

Getting greener all the time

APC's Back-UPS ES 550 is designed to give you an environmentally friendly solution to your home computer system protection problem and boasts a new industrial design that reduces its physical size and improves its aesthetic appeal. The electronics in this unit are meticulously engineered to minimize impact on the environment and maximize efficiency. This new design uses less copper and other raw materials during the manufacturing process and its packaging is made from recycled material. Additionally, the unit is compliant with the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, meaning it conforms to strict environmental regulations, making it more environmentally friendly at the end of its life. The RoHS severely curtails the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacturing of electronics, including lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).

Never heard of APC?

From corporate data centers to home offices to home theaters, APC is highly regarded as an innovator, designer, and manufacturer of quality power protection solutions. With a proven reputation for Legendary Reliability, leading companies depend on APC every day to protect and support many of the most critical networks in the world, including those at Microsoft, Toyota Motor Sales, and IBM. Over the last 20 years, APC has been a pioneer in the development of new power protection technologies that have resulted in countless industry awards, design patents, and an installed-base numbering in the tens of millions of units. Multiple R&D centers, along with APC-owned and controlled factories ensure APC solutions are the safest, most advanced, and reliable products available. And you can expect the same outstanding performance from the APC products aimed at the consumer electronics market. When you buy APC, peace of mind is what you get.

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USB cable, software CD-ROM, wall mounting template, User's Guide.

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