CyberPower EC650LCD Ecologic UPS Battery Backup and Surge Protector

We've had a lot of power dips during these rainy days and this UPS has protected my computer every time. Keeps my server running without losing function during the brief outages. Compact size fits fine where I needed it too. Solid piece of mind for the price.

I recently bought the CyberPower EC650LCD Ecologic 650VA/390-Watts, and I am extremely impressed with it. I have my Computer and Oculus rift plugged into it now. I would have my 32" flat screen plugged in as well, but my outlet layout and length of HDTV cord prevents me from doing that. I mainly wanted this for my computer and I had my doubts if this would satisfy my computers lust for energy. I have an i5 3570K overclocked to 4.5GHZ, GTX 670 2GB video card, 8GB DDR3@1600 (2) Hard drives and (1) SSD, an X-Fi PCI-e sound card, OCZ 850 Gold modular power supply. DVD burner, (4) case fans ranging from 120 to 250mm and roughly 6 USB devices depending on which controller I'm using.. Oh and the Oculus Rift. This is my power requirement and this device supplies it for me big time. Playing my flight sim with all the graphics turned up, so it is using massive CPU and GPU power, the average pull was roughly 230 Watts, giving me a nice 6 minute buffer to shut down in case of power outage, and about another 160 watts buffer until I've maxed it out. When I am just browsing the net though, I'm only pulling 85 watts, which gives me close to a ½ hour. This thing is awesome, and I shouldn't have to worry when the power cuts on and off five times in a row like it's known to do at times....Just thrashing my computer. I seriously doubted if this would be enough, but it is perfect. It would probably fare pretty well even if I scored another GTX 670 to put in SLI, but it would be tapped after that. But that is awesome for the price and quality of this item. **EDIT** So I bought another video card on impulse because the auction price was good and I didn't really think I would win. Well now I have 2 GTX 670's in SLI and I didn't even think about my power situation before ordering the card. Everything still works ..AMAZINGLY, but one thing has me baffled. When I fly my sim and there's graphically heavy stuff going on, the cards get pretty hot and I start to exceed 400w, and when it does, the system lets out a constant audible alarm. This doesn't happen the whole time I'm playing, but only in specific heavy spots, and I can tell it's going to happen because those video card fans start making lots of noise. I've changed the settings to never sound alarms but it still does. Does anybody know how to shut this thing up? And what does that really mean for the system anyway? Is it leeching off the battery to make up for the power deficit? I would just assume that it offers me ZERO backup time while I'm playing, and I totally accept that. I'm not playing the thing all day, so I'm protected most of the time anyway. Oh and I bought another SSD just for flight sim stuff, but I doubt that adds much to my power requirements. This device is still amazing! With an additional video card and SSD I still have a 12 minute window of backup power when doing light work like browsing. I'll be purchasing an upgrade from Cyberpower in the near future. I just need to quiet down the alarms with what I currently have if possible. [...]

works ok

I've been using this a little over a year now, and it has been performing well. I've taken a star off for the PowerPanel software and ECO controlled outlets. The ECO controlled outlets are supposed to shut off power to secondary devices (such as computer speakers) after the computer shuts down. The problem I have is that when my computer is in the process of shutting down or going to sleep, the ECO outlets will shut off and turn back on repeatedly (there's a noticeable click). This happens several times until the computer has fully powered down and then the ECO outlets stay off. I contacted CyberPower about this and was told that my computer is probably turning the USB port off and on. It was recommended that I disable the ECO feature. In any case, it seems like it would have been a logical design to build a time-out of a few seconds into the ECO controller: Don't immediately shut off ECO outlets if the USB connection to computer is interrupted, and don't turn the ECO outlets back on immediately after turning them off if the USB connection is restored, so as to avoid the potentially harmful off-on behavior. Without the ECO feature the PowerPanel software is a bit useless in my situation. You can configure it to shut down the computer automatically after it runs on the battery a certain amount of time or when a certain amount of estimated battery run time is remaining, but the minimum time you can select for either option is 5 minutes. Connected to my battery is the PC tower, one monitor, and two external harddrives (which are powered off most of the time), and whenever the power goes out, I typically have only 5 minutes of power. If I'm home to do things manually, 5 minutes is plenty of time to save my work and shut down, but if I rely on the automatic processes, the battery will most likely run out of power while initiating the shutdown process. I thought I would leave the PowerPanel software in place, as it also provides statistics and diagnostic tools, but I kept getting system notifications that I had 5 minutes or fewer of power remaining. This got annoying fast, so I finally uninstalled the software. Would I buy again? Well, I think I'd prefer something with more battery-supported outlets, and the next time I buy a UPS I'll probably splurge for something with a larger charge capacity, but this has been a very good better-than-nothing budget home UPS. We get a lot of brownouts where I live, so this UPS has already saved me several times. A better CyberPower UPS recently went on sale, and I was tempted to buy it, but decided I didn't need it since my needs haven't outgrown my current UPS and it's still relatively new. Update: 2023.08.24 I bought this UPS in December of 2014, and today it failed while I was sitting at my computer. I think the battery is dead, so I need a replacement, but 8 and a half years has been a been a really good run since quick research suggests 5 years is the median lifespan for a UPS battery.

I must say, I have purchased several other battery back up systems from Cyberpower before and they are always flawless. This particular unit I use to power my cable modem/router, Majic Jack Device (IP Phone), Cordless main phone, and two IP Security cameras. It will power all of that for 90 minutes if the power goes out. how do I know? The display tells you so! Here is the rest of my review. 1) Quality. There is never a problem with quality in the CyberPower brand. Everything is built well. 5 of 5 stars 2) Display. The display tells you everything you need to know, like how much time before the battery back up is drained. Also how charged the battery is, and more. Bravo! 5 of 5 stars 3) Hang on the wall. I use this in my data closet and can easily be mounted right to the wall. I mount it about eye level so I can go in and see the display when there is a power outage. 5 of 5 stars 4) Outlet config. There are 4 regular outlets with surge suppression, and another 4 with additional battery back up. Perfect for my needs. 5 of 5 stars. This unit is an awesome addition to my home network and securty system. I highly recommend the unit as described in my review. If you are looking to power a PC, you might consider a unit from CyberPower that has a larger battery capacity. This powers the router, two security cameras, and the IP Phone very well. Another reason why I use this is because in my area we get small power bumps that last only a 1/2 to 2 seconds once a week or so. My IP based security cameras get thier internal clock reset when this happens causting the day/night function to be incorrectly timed. The battery back up maintains the power and the clock function in those cameras so I dont have to constantly be resetting the clock in each one. Other benefits is that I will have power to those cameras when I have a power outage.

Exactly as advertised. Very happy with purchase. Very simple to install.

This works great on Linux. When I googled the manufacturer's software for linux before I received the item, the links said it was discontinued, so I loaded apcupsd from the linux distribution. I charged the unit overnight and hooked it up, but it locked when trying to boot the computer with the USB cable connected. That was a scare! But the manual gave a link to the software downloads, and it had one for linux that works flawlessly. It even has command line monitoring. I have it hooked up to two computers, with USB shutdown control for one and only the UPS function for the other. This give me six minutes of run time after a blackout, which is fine since our blackouts are usually under a minute. In case of a full fledged blackout, the second computer will crash, but for that one a graceful shutdown is not critical. With only one the first computer hooked up, I would have had 17 minutes. Great deal.

My EC650LCD worked fine for one year and then something went wrong because the ECO light was blinking all the time and there was not power coming out from the ECO controlled outlets. I contacted CyberPower and described the situation and they sent me a replacement UPS unit with no questions asked. After I received the replacement UPS unit, I plugged it not the wall and let it charge for 8+ hours. Then I pressed the power button and the unit turned on. However the ECO light was off. Then I followed the steps to activate the ECO feature and was able to activate it but the ECO light was blinking same as on my old unit. I read the instructions more carefully, so I turned off the UPS unit and unplugged it from the wall, then I connected my computer and the monitor to the ECO controlled outlets, then I plugged the UPS unit to the wall, then I pressed the UPS unit power switch and attempted to power on my computer and monitor but neither of them responded. I read the instruction further and they indicated that if the ECO light was blinking, it meant that the UPS unit did not detect the computer. At this point I stopped and scratched my head. How could the UPS unit detect my computer if the ECO light was blinking? If the ECO light was blinking it meant that there was not power coming out from the ECO controlled outlets, so how could I turn on my computer so that the UPS unit detected it if there was no power on the ECO controlled outlets? I have to mention that I kept the UPS’ unit USB cable connected between my computer and the UPS unit so that it could “detect” my computer but that did not help. After going through this entire ordeal with the new UPS unit, it made me wonder if my original CyberPower unit was still good and that it stopped detecting my computer because at some point in time, I powered my computer off. So I connected the old unit to the wall, powered it on and ran it through “Power Panel Personal” and the old unit came out excellent. So I repeated the same steps with the old unit, and I had the same results than with the new one. The old unit was good but it could not detect my computer because it was off because the ECO light was blinking and therefore there was no power on the ECO controlled outlets. Is this issue an EC650LCD design flaw? Am I following the steps wrongly? As a bonus, I tried something not so elegant to get ECO control system to work. I connected my monitor and computer to the UPS unit surge protector outlets, I powered on my computer on and when it was just beginning to boot, the UPS ECO light switched from blinking to steady, I quickly unplugged the computer form the surge protector outlet and swapped it to one of the ECO controlled outlets and was able to get my computer and my monitor running under ECO controlled mode. As you may understand, I do not recommend the CyberPower EC650LCD UPS unit. I’ll keep both UPS units as surge protectors. As for the Lead Acid Batteries, they might still be useful for something else since they are fully charged and are expensive.

Lo compré hace tiempo (aún no llegó año). Lo desempaque, le conecte cosas y me he olvidado de él, lo cual es bueno pues no da problemas. El tiempo de la pila, obviamente, varía de lo que se le conecte pero en general para una pantallota y un computador da como unos 15-20 minutos. Sólo hay un detalle con los puertos que no están soportados por la batería, aunque se apague estos continúan pasando corriente.

I bought the 650 VA unit, I know instructions say it’s only good for about 20 mins of power but if you’re just powering up a Modem like my new Bell Gigabit 1.5 this will last over two hours. After a solid night of charging unit up I unplugged it to see just how long it would last. After 2 hours the display showed it would still last another 30mins. So far I’m really pleased, maybe in future I will update my thoughts. Seems well built and delivers better then expected. 👍 My old modem 3000 had a built in battery that was a $130.00 to replace, couldn’t get more then an hour out of it. This is by far better value. 🤓

This is my first CyberPower UPS and I’m extremely pleased! We often have brownouts and the UPS keeps the power steady and protects our higher value electronics. Also great to have extra power on hand to charge devices during outages. Overall impressed with this UPS for the price!

Hasta el momento me ha funcionado muy bien, no hace ningún zumbido, tengo conectado a la batería un PS4, una tableta digitalizadora y un monitor, y ya me ha salvado varias veces para que no se apague bruscamente mi consola, en los contactos de supresión de picos tengo una laptop unas bocinas y una lámpara y no he tenido ningún problema.

Cumple sobradamente con su propósito. La batería funciona perfectamente y la regulación de voltaje también. Ideal para proteger tus equipos. La ventaja de poder empotrarlo a la pared lo hace sumamente práctico, aunque si es algo voluminoso.