Inside the box you get the battery backup with the 5-foot long hardwired power cable, a USB Type-A cable for the optional power-management software and the usual paperwork. The brown cardboard box had a few dings on it, but the battery backup was undamaged inside. The APC UPS 600VA Battery Backup & Surge Protector with USB Charging Port (BE600M1) was shipped to us without being placed in a shipping box. These are all massive differences in areas that matter and certainly some good reasons to upgrade to the latest model rather than replacing the battery in your old unit! New battery backup models don’t come out too often and it’s apparent that they can bring good changes as well. APC managed to get over 55% more battery life out of this unit at a 40 Watt load and that is impressive. Last and most importantly, the new APC BE600M1 lasts 67 minutes with a 40 Watt load versus just 43 minutes on BE550G. The humming/buzzing noise on BE600M1 when the battery is being used is rated at 35dBA from a distance of 1-meter and that is a huge reduction from the 45dBA on the older model. A typical recharge is just 10 hours on the BE600M1 versus 24 hours on BE550G, a 2.4x improvement! When it comes to surge protection before the units switches over to battery the new BE600M1 as a 490 Joules surge energy rating versus a 340 Joules rating on the BE550G, which is a 44% boost in protection. That means it switches over to the battery 25% quicker than the previous model. For example, the BE600M1 has a 6ms typical transfer time (10ms max) versus the 8ms typical transfer time (12ms max) on the model that it replaces. When you start diving into the technical specifications there are number of key differences between the two models that are worth pointing out. APC did away with Ethernet line surge protection (RJ45 port), but has included a 1.5 Amp USB charge port on the new model. The new BE600M1 is a 330W battery back up that has 7 power outlets (5 battery back & surge protected and 2 surge protected) in a smaller form factor of 10.8 x 4.1 x 5.5 inches and a weight of just 7.7 pounds. Our old BE550G was a 330W back up that had 8 outlets (4 battery back up & surge protected and 4 surge protected only) in a unit that was 12 x 3.3 x 7 inches in size and a weight of 12.1 pounds. So, the question that I was stuck on was having to put a new battery in my nearly 10-year old unit for $35 or getting a newer model like the APC Back-UPS 600VA BE600M1 for $56.89 shipped. No complaints there and the replacement battery for the BE550G is sold under part number APCRBC110 for $35.14 shipped. The battery life in one of these units is generally 3-5 years and I basically got double the advertised life from the original battery. I actually bought the old APC Back-UPS 550VA nearly a decade ago and it just recently started giving off an alert that the battery was on it’s last leg. The APC Back-UPS 600VA BE600M1 was introduced in 2016 as the replacement to the APC Back-UPS 550VA BE550G that originally came out in 2008.
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