Fuck you electricity!!!

So I'm sitting here minding my own business not bothering anyone, when all of a sudden electricity goes down, for 1 second. By the time I looked up and down again it was back.

My computers shut down, which is bad when they shut down like that. And my router shut down, which means it restarted, which means my IP changed, and now I had to contact my proxy provider to authenticate again, which is a pain in the fucking ass. And I was in the middle of something and now I can't continue because the proxies aren't working until they get authenticated with new IP address.

Ufff....

So in order to save me the pain in the ass, and to protect my computers some, I should buy one of those battery things. I believe it's called UPS. That's what I need right?

So for the router I just need a small baby one. I looked at a site I visit when I shop where they list all the shops and prices, and here's the cheapest one I can get for like $20 bucks:

Njoy Paladin 1000 AVR (PWAV-10003PL-AZ01B) 1000VA/500W

I don't wanna fuck this up and get something which then either won't work, or will end up burning up what I connect it to... because... I don't know... missmatch of voltage or whatever technical bs.

What does all this mean - 1000 AVR (PWAV-10003PL-AZ01B) 1000VA/500W

AVR? PWAV? PL? VA? Can you invent more shit I never heard of?

Oh, anyway, can anyone shed some light on this?

Use... Inverter?

alonelywriter said:

Use... Inverter?

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Whats that?

Scorpion Ghost said:

Whats that?

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ahem backup batter, so in case your electricity goes out, your backup battery keeps your all things working. they won't stop.

ups are good to save your work or as alonlywriter said use inverter if you want a long backup.

Most of all proxy providers using web panel and from there you can authenticate your IP yourself. Ask your proxy provider for web panel

Scorpion Ghost said:

Whats that?

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Something like this https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Uninterruptible-Power-Supply-Units/b?ie=UTF8&node=764572

Yeah you need a UPS that will match your usage of wattage.

A 500W UPS will power your Desktop and monitor for about 30 mins or so. So it is meant for you to safely shutdown while the UPS kicks in.

I have this one in my server rack
https://www.amazon.com/APC-SmartCon...words=UPS+APC+rackmount&qid=1577084154&sr=8-3

Keeps power to the important things in my rack for about 40 min

You need to measure your power usage, and find a UPS that is rated for that load.

Its not a solution to keep running, but rather for you to properly shutdown systems or switch to alternative power (Generator)

Ignore this part : 1000 AVR (PWAV-10003PL-AZ01B)

It's the microcontroller and model part.

Important parts are :
1000VA/500W

500W means that it is capable of handling upto 500 watts of power (which isn't anything good.. Even an iron draws 750 watts).

VA means Volt-Ampere. It's kinda related to your UPS's wattage. Worry about the watts part only for now. For the UPS to be practical for PCs, you will need 1KW (1000watts) of power per PC (I know it doesn't go that far, but in case of a surge; you will be safe).

Now, I am no Electrical Engineer so excuse my probable mistakes.

Edit: Don't fuck Electricity. It can be electrifying.

alonelywriter said:

ahem backup batter, so in case your electricity goes out, your backup battery keeps your all things working. they won't stop.

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Ok so inverter/UPS, pretty much the same thing yeah.?

Maybe inverter more powerful type thing that would last longer.

seopencil said:

ups are good to save your work or as alonlywriter said use inverter if you want a long backup.

Most of all proxy providers using web panel and from there you can authenticate your IP yourself. Ask your proxy provider for web panel

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My proxy provider gives me a great price, fantastic proxies that work very well, and he is online all the time. The only downside is that for shared proxies (which is what i use) he doest allow user to authenticate. I always have to ask him to do it.

Hey, you get what you pay for

nSnoopy said:

Something like this https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Uninterruptible-Power-Supply-Units/b?ie=UTF8&node=764572

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Yeah pretty much...

underachieved said:

Yeah you need a UPS that will match your usage of wattage.

A 500W UPS will power your Desktop and monitor for about 30 mins or so. So it is meant for you to safely shutdown while the UPS kicks in.

I have this one in my server rack
https://www.amazon.com/APC-SmartCon...words=UPS+APC+rackmount&qid=1577084154&sr=8-3

Keeps power to the important things in my rack for about 40 min

You need to measure your power usage, and find a UPS that is rated for that load.

Its not a solution to keep running, but rather for you to properly shutdown systems or switch to alternative power (Generator)

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I basically just need something to keep things running for at least 30 minutes in case electricity goes down. In most cases it just drops for a few seconds, and creates chaos for me.

Gogol said:

Ignore this part : 1000 AVR (PWAV-10003PL-AZ01B)

It's the microcontroller and model part.

Important parts are :
1000VA/500W

500W means that it is capable of handling upto 500 watts of power (which isn't anything good.. Even an iron draws 750 watts).

VA means Volt-Ampere. It's kinda related to your UPS's wattage. Worry about the watts part only for now. For the UPS to be practical for PCs, you will need 1KW (1000watts) of power per PC (I know it doesn't go that far, but in case of a surge; you will be safe).

Now, I am no Electrical Engineer so excuse my probable mistakes.

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Ok beautiful. See i have 3 computers. Each has a 500W power supply. So your advice is i buy 1 UPS with 1000W for each?

Ok so then the Watts are important to support what i connect to the UPS, keep it safe in case of a surge etc.

But what defines how long the UPS will last once the power goes down? Is it also the Watts, or the VA, or what?

Thanks man

Scorpion Ghost said:

Ok so inverter/UPS, pretty much the same thing yeah.?

Maybe inverter more powerful type thing that would last longer.



My proxy provider gives me a great price, fantastic proxies that work very well, and he is online all the time. The only downside is that for shared proxies (which is what i use) he doest allow user to authenticate. I always have to ask him to do it.

Hey, you get what you pay for



Yeah pretty much...



I basically just need something to keep things running for at least 30 minutes in case electricity goes down. In most cases it just drops for a few seconds, and creates chaos for me.



Ok beautiful. See i have 3 computers. Each has a 500W power supply. So your advice is i buy 1 UPS with 1000W for each?

Ok so then the Watts are important to support what i connect to the UPS, keeo it safe in case of a surge etc.

But what defines how long the UPS will last? Is it also the Watts, or the VA, or what?

Thanks man

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Just because you have a 500 watt power supply, doesn't mean that you are using 500 watts of power

Not sure if there is a tool to measure your power usage with software on a desktop, or you need to plug in a power reader where all your equipment is plugged into (Power strip) and see how much power you are drawing. With servers all this info is in the hypervisor
you can use the good ol Kill a watt or something similair
https://www.amazon.com/P3-P4400-Ele..._1_4?keywords=killawatt&qid=1577085081&sr=8-4

Then you can use this tool by APC (Major manufacture of UPS) to determine what suits your needs
https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/tools/ups_selector/home/load

Electricity is the major problem on many of countries and yes UPS are the best way to cover this problem !

Scorpion Ghost said:

Ok so inverter/UPS, pretty much the same thing yeah.?


Ok beautiful. See i have 3 computers. Each has a 500W power supply. So your advice is i buy 1 UPS with 1000W for each?

Ok so then the Watts are important to support what i connect to the UPS, keep it safe in case of a surge etc.

But what defines how long the UPS will last once the power goes down? Is it also the Watts, or the VA, or what?

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0. Throw your existing power supplies away, as they do not work lol.
1. Buy atleast 2 (but then, how would you split it among 3 machines? Think about that one too).
2. To calculate the power, first look at your SMPS. For example, my desktop has 550W max. So, It won't go beyond that. If you need the monitor to be available as well, then add wattage for your monitor to the calculation as well.
3. Longevity will depend on the battery AH rating (it's like our mobile phones only.. mah, remember?). You haven't mentioned the AH rating, so it is impossible to say how much time.

Seriously though, if you can afford some money; buy a powerul inverter. It will save you money in the long run, and you will not have to worry about managing UPSs individually.

For me I'm using a laptop so the battery is there
Second I'm using user name password proxy so it won't stop working when my ip change
And what is that proxy company that you need to contact them to add your ip??
I used many providers and all of them provide a dashboard where you add your ip yourself
For the modem you don't need to buy new one cause there is a trick I've seen on a video and will send it

You aren't living in a 3rd world country and you're complaining. come Naija make you know what's up! Mtcheew!

majdi107 said:

For me I'm using a laptop so the battery is there
Second I'm using user name password proxy so it won't stop working when my ip change
And what is that proxy company that you need to contact them to add your ip??
I used many providers and all of them provide a dashboard where you add your ip yourself
For the modem you don't need to buy new one cause there is a trick I've seen on a video and will send it

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Post it here ...

And yeah even if we use inverter the power will go off for blink of time i guess when there is a power cut. In that case also we need a UPS anyway, isnt it?

Better to take invertor, instead of ups. It costs you some 300 USD and serves for a few hours. My home invertor gives me 15 hours to run a computer and router.

wont work anyway , say the electric out for 2 or 5 hours your still fucked .

as already said there to shut down when power goes out that all there for .

i backup as anythink changes in real life to a harddrive, i do a full cloud backup as i sleep every night .

there no real way to stop your problam , i am sure updating your ip nothink to the provider .

gd luck .

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And yeah even if we use inverter the power will go off for blink of time i guess when there is a power cut. In that case also we need a UPS anyway, isnt it?

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It shouldn't. Otherwise, the inverter will be pointless.

Gogol said:

It shouldn't. Otherwise, the inverter will be pointless.

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Got it. Thanks for enlightening me.
Seriously, till now i was thinking we need both of them to not get disconnected even a few seconds.

In case noone mentioned: "W" is very important not only to keep your system alive, but for ths UPS to stay alive while you have electricity.
If you plug in more appliances than UPS is capable to handle (wattage wise), it will die even during the normal usage with electricity coming from the socket.