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APC Back-UPS ES 725

March 10th, 2004 | by Jeff Fila

Design and Features

The ES 725 is a 725VA/450W UPS designed to power a computer, monitor and necessary peripherals in the event of a power disturbance. The battery backup provides enough power to enable the user, or the system itself, to save work and shutdown properly.

The APC Back-UPS ES 725 is targeted at average home or office computers. With most systems, you won't be able to continue to work for hours on end, but that is not the purpose of this UPS; the purpose is to allow you to safely save your work and shutdown your computer.

With four battery-powered/surge protected outlets and four other surge protected outlets, the ES 725 provides enough power and outlets to protect any workstation and its peripherals. On each side of the unit, one of the four outlets is spaced farther away than the others to provide room for a transformer block.

Since lightning or surges can travel through any copper wire, the ES 725 also provides surge protection to other gear with two other connections. It has input and output connections to protect coax cable as well as a fax, phone, DSL or ethernet cable with a protected RJ-45/RJ-11 port.

The ES 725 also features a long 6-foot cord, a resettable circuit breaker, LED status indicators and user-replaceable, hot-swappable batteries.

According to APC's literature, the ES 725 also performs an automatic bi-weekly test of its internal components, including the battery. This happens behind-the-scenes. The battery is a maintenance-free, leakproof, lead-acid battery. This means that at the end of the battery's lifetime, you can order a replacement through APC without having to buy a whole new unit.

The ES 725 features surge protection for coax and fax/phone/dsl and Ethernet cable.