Discovered something about UPS...

[Mickk]

They are essentially useless where there is no-one around to actually turn the PC (or other equipment) off when the power does go out.....

Unless you have one of those commercial UPS that can support a computer for +6 hours that is.

I figured that out the other day, when my UPS finally gave up after FOUR DAYS of making me believe I had something wrong with my PC.

I had two options;

A) buy another UPS, same model
B) buy a good surge protector made by the same people for about a 1/3 of the cost....

No brainer really when I thought about it.

UPS = $115, stops surges/brownouts and gives a huge (not) run time of 10 whole minutes if the power goes off, then your PC falls over anyway if the power hasn't come back on.

Surge Protector =$49, stops surges/brownouts.

So yeah, unless you are willing to shell out the big $$$ (upwards of $1,600 for the 'commercial' UPS they sell where I got my 'consumer' model from), I wouldn't bother.

But that's just me.

As to what was wrong with my UPS..... the power inverter had spat the dummy, according to an electrical expert who looked at it, the internal battery was still fine and fully charged!!

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