APC Easy Rack PDU, Metered Outlet, 0U, 3 Phase, 11kW, 230V, 16A, (18) C13 and (6) C19 outlets, IEC60309 3P+N+PE inlet

Product Overview

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For £1,244 ex-VAT, this APC Easy Rack metered PDU is the kind of “boring but crucial” upgrade that pays off if you’re running real loads and you actually care about visibility and control. The selling point here isn’t the outlets count—it’s the metering and the fact it’s built to live in a rack without drama. If you’ve got multiple devices on a shared circuit (or you’re troubleshooting intermittent issues), being able to see what’s going on by outlet/circuit helps you stop playing guessing games and speeds up fault finding and capacity planning.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it just because it’s “APC” or because it looks tidy on paper. If you don’t have a 3‑phase supply available, or if your environment is mostly lightly loaded and you don’t benefit from monitoring, you’re paying for features you won’t use. Also, if budget is tight, you’ll want to compare against simpler (unmetered) PDUs first—many sites don’t need metering until they’re at the point where outages or overdraw risk is already a recurring headache. Who it suits best: data closets/server rooms with sensible power budgeting, teams that do maintenance/troubleshooting, and anyone standardising racks where consistent power monitoring saves time and reduces risk.