Eaton 5P 850i - Gen 2 - UPS - tower - AC 200/208/220/230/240 V - 680 Watt - 850 VA - 1-phase - 7 Ah - RS-232, USB - output connectors: 6 - black/silver

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

The Eaton 5P 850i Gen 2 is one of those “quietly sensible” UPS units that work well for typical small-office and light IT loads. For the money (£362 ex-VAT), you’re getting enough headroom for a server/mini-NAS plus networking gear and monitors to ride out short outages cleanly—without paying for the kind of overkill bigger racks are built for. The tower format is practical if you’ve got space on an office floor or a comms cupboard, and the monitoring connectivity (including USB/RS-232) tends to play nicely with common management setups in the UK.

That said, I’d only recommend it if your expectation is sensible: it’s not a “long runtime” UPS, and you shouldn’t buy it hoping to keep larger compute during extended outages. If you’re backing up a higher-draw workload or you regularly see long power cuts, you’ll want to look at models designed for runtime expansion or higher capacity rather than squeezing more out of a unit like this. For a small business, reseller client, or departmental rack-adjacent setup where reliability matters and the budget is real, it’s a good fit—just make sure the runtime requirements match how your site actually behaves.