APC BV800I uninterruptible power supply (UPS) Line-Interactive 0.8 kVA 450 W

Product Overview

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For £74.66 ex-VAT, the APC BV800I is the kind of “keep the network alive long enough to shut down properly” UPS I actually recommend for small offices, retail tills, or a single desktop setup with a bit of networking kit. It’s line-interactive, so it’ll handle those everyday brownouts and brief glitches without you having to think about it. The key value here is cost: it’s cheap enough that buying one per desk/area is realistic, and it reduces the risk of corruption or downtime from short outages.

That said, don’t oversell it. At this price point you’re not getting serious runtime—so if you’re hoping it’ll bridge longer blackouts or run multiple devices, you’ll be disappointed. If you need protection for something more demanding (servers, clustered gear, or anything you can’t afford to lose even for a few minutes), you’ll want a higher-capacity UPS and ideally a model with better runtime for your load. For a small, low-power load where “graceful shutdown” is the goal, it’s good value. For anything mission-critical or extended outages, it’s not the right tool.