[wellylug] Recommend a UPS?

[Mark Foster]

> Also has anyone seen a cable in retail that has an IEC male plug on one end, 
> and a standard AC female socket on the other? That would be handy because I 
> have a bunch of peripherals (e.g. water pump for cooling) running from mains 
> power with standard AC plug that I really do not want to cease operating in a 
> power cut if the workstation is still going!

I have a box of these on my desk at work.

We use them to feed standard 3-Pin power strips from IEC power strips that 
are within 19" racks and fed via high-ampage PDUs.

Pretty sure we got them from Jaycar....

... yep, found em.  Go to www.jaycar.co.nz and search for product code 
PS4100.

As for your UPS requirements, they dont sound spectacularly unusual, and 
most of the better names will play nice with upsd or are supplied with 
their own daemon.  The catch might be the need to interact with more than 
one host...

... I dare say you should check out a few vendors directly.

Mark.