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Ralph 5 Aug @ 6:54am

Help in choosing a UPS for my computer

Around six months ago, I ordered a UPS for my computer that's going to arrive at my place in a month from then. Before my PC arrived, I've been using my laptop and I've noticed that my new place experience constant blackouts (once or twice during most days on a week) so I was worried about my computer breaking down due to the constant power loss.

I don't know the first thing about choosing the right UPS so I asked the place where I bought a couple of my current RAM sticks and my new monitor as to which one should I pick. After describing my computer specs and saying that i'll use my starlink router for it as well, they recommended me the ICA CT 1082B 2000 VA. Thinking that it's the best option and that I can get everything that I need in one place, I ended up buying it

There's some gaps around my memory but I think it ran well until the third month, when the battery ran out really fast for some reason, and now I can't get the thing to run for a good ten seconds, which makes it useless when it came to saving my work before the power run out.

I've thought about replacing the battery but before I do so, I want to know if there's better options that I can get instead of using this model. Something that can run for at least ten minutes for work and competitive gaming stuff (The model is also using step wave instead of sine wave but I've seen that it's not that big of a deal so I'm not sure if it's important)

Computer specs and other things plugged onto the UPS:

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Alice Liddell 5 Aug @ 7:04am

Make sure you get the power wattage you need plus I say about 100w of power more than you need but be SURE to pick a PURE SINE WAVE UPS do NOT go with Modified Sine Wave which is cheaper but not proper.

And I also suggest a UPS that you can "upgrade" the outlet on it to a non-GFCI outlet as the GFCI outlets do fail within 5 years or so dependent on the in-house circuit breaker (one reason I would mod the UPS into a non-GFCI outlet as these last far longer and as long as you have a home circuit breaker, not a fuse box, you should be good to go as well as plugging that UPS into a proper Jules surge protector.

Just know that the UPS is ONLY for shutting down the PC within 5 minutes during a blackout and to prevent brown out damage wither way, those outlets should be easily repairable (i.e. just like switching out a wall outlet) if you get a good one.

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Ralph 5 Aug @ 8:30am

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:
Make sure you get the power wattage you need plus I say about 100w of power more than you need but be SURE to pick a PURE SINE WAVE UPS do NOT go with Modified Sine Wave which is cheaper but not proper.

And I also suggest a UPS that you can "upgrade" the outlet on it to a non-GFCI outlet as the GFCI outlets do fail within 5 years or so dependent on the in-house circuit breaker (one reason I would mod the UPS into a non-GFCI outlet as these last far longer and as long as you have a home circuit breaker, not a fuse box, you should be good to go as well as plugging that UPS into a proper Jules surge protector.

Just know that the UPS is ONLY for shutting down the PC within 5 minutes during a blackout and to prevent brown out damage wither way, those outlets should be easily repairable (i.e. just like switching out a wall outlet) if you get a good one.

I've calculated it and the wattage usage is around 730w so I think something around 900-1000w should do then, although I've heard about power factors being a thing so something around 1200va should be a safe bet? I'll try searching for one that can be switched to a non-GFCI outlet, although I'll be fine if I just need to change it's outlet once every few years

Also if I do need it to be on for an extended amount of time, I have a generator set up for that so this is for the worst case scenario when I'm in a middle of a match and I can't ask someone to turn it on

Thanks for the advice. I'll go for a pure sine wave ups if that's the case.

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