TheRedRabbit
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Just get an inverter. It will power your whole house along your computer. Depending on its capacity, it can provide backup for hours.
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) for multiple computers?
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blogmen
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Yeah, way too much power. No microwave oven, washing machine, so on.
It's not as good for outages. UPS switches instantly while with inverter you can still get your PC turned off on a power cut.
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Killer. Thanks dawg.
TheRedRabbit
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I have been using a sine wave inverter for more three years, had hundreds of power cuts. Not even once has my pc turned off due to a powercut. I even keep my PC on for weeks some time. No issues so far. The inverter even powers all the lights and fans.
Before that I had an APC ups. Its battery died four times in two years. Moving to an inverter was the best decision.
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TheRedRabbit
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Well my setup is good for keeping the pc powered on for longer durations. If you dont need that, you can go for a UPS.
Please tell me what you are using for a battery to work with the inverter. And What do you recommend to look for in an inverter? Thanks
TheRedRabbit
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They are two types of inverters: Square wave and Sine wave. Square wave inverters are meant for devices like motors. Sine wave inverters are meant for devices like Refrigerator, fan, light and computers.
Get a sine wave inverter if you intend to use it for a computer. Depending on the backup time required, you can hook a smaller or larger capacity battery. Both the inverter and battery can be placed inside a compact housing unit.
Thank you! Are you using a 7 amp hour battery or larger like a ATV battery like this? https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Max-Battery-YTX14-BS-product/dp/B00K537T9C/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=atv%2Bbattery&qid=1652718783&sr=8-8&th=1
Or something else? Thanks for helping
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Maybe yours has an offline mode. That would mean it has a built-in UPS.
I think it's overkill to get a 2000w-4000w inverter for what op needs. The UPS is more than enough.
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So the UPS arrived 2 days ago, but I only got around to trying it now. I've been charging it since yesterday though.
I plugged a PC in the UPS, and then turned on the PC. I let the PC start up and turn on some programs for a few minutes, and then I unplugged the UPS from the wall socket.
The PC continued to work
I left it like that for about 1,5 minute, and then I plugged the UPS back in the wall socket. The PC continued to work, no problem.
It turns out that the UPS makes a beep once every 10 seconds while running on the battery. This is cool I guess, like if I'm sleeping in the next room and this happens, it may alert me and wake me up to come check the situation.
But the main reason I like the alert is because someone told me that the type of (cheap) battery this UPS has, if it gets used to below 50% discharge, the battery gets damaged. And the more times you discharge it below 50%, the more damage you do to it. And the damage translates into smaller capacity of the battery, which translates into the battery holding less power, meaning it can keep the stuff connected to it running for less time.
So if the power ever goes out and I'm here, I'll promptly turn off the computers connected to the UPS, to hopefully prevent the battery from going below 50%.
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Another thing I decided, I will not be buying more UPSs. I'll just keep this one and use 2 of my best and most important computers on it. I figure hopefully the UPS can keep 2 PCs running for at least 5 minutes each, which is more than enough time to shut them down in case of a power outage, and more than enough time for the PCs to keep running and continue to run if the power outage is only a few seconds/minutes long.
My other computers, well, 2 of them are my oldest ones, not very great, so let them shut down during a power outage. At this point I've set the PCs to start up automatically when power returns, so no harm done. Well, the harm that could happen is components getting damaged because of a sudden shut down when the power is lost. But these 2 computers, I don't really care. What I should do if I wasn't so lazy is sell both of them and then buy 1 computer to replace these two. It would be better, but anyway.
And my last computer, well, fuck it, it will have to live with a power outage shutting it down
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And that's that
I plugged a PC in the UPS, and then turned on the PC. I let the PC start up and turn on some programs for a few minutes, and then I unplugged the UPS from the wall socket.
The PC continued to work
I left it like that for about 1,5 minute, and then I plugged the UPS back in the wall socket. The PC continued to work, no problem.
It turns out that the UPS makes a beep once every 10 seconds while running on the battery. This is cool I guess, like if I'm sleeping in the next room and this happens, it may alert me and wake me up to come check the situation.
But the main reason I like the alert is because someone told me that the type of (cheap) battery this UPS has, if it gets used to below 50% discharge, the battery gets damaged. And the more times you discharge it below 50%, the more damage you do to it. And the damage translates into smaller capacity of the battery, which translates into the battery holding less power, meaning it can keep the stuff connected to it running for less time.
So if the power ever goes out and I'm here, I'll promptly turn off the computers connected to the UPS, to hopefully prevent the battery from going below 50%.
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Another thing I decided, I will not be buying more UPSs. I'll just keep this one and use 2 of my best and most important computers on it. I figure hopefully the UPS can keep 2 PCs running for at least 5 minutes each, which is more than enough time to shut them down in case of a power outage, and more than enough time for the PCs to keep running and continue to run if the power outage is only a few seconds/minutes long.
My other computers, well, 2 of them are my oldest ones, not very great, so let them shut down during a power outage. At this point I've set the PCs to start up automatically when power returns, so no harm done. Well, the harm that could happen is components getting damaged because of a sudden shut down when the power is lost. But these 2 computers, I don't really care. What I should do if I wasn't so lazy is sell both of them and then buy 1 computer to replace these two. It would be better, but anyway.
And my last computer, well, fuck it, it will have to live with a power outage shutting it down
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And that's that