Discussion Forums > Technology

Backup Battery. Do you use it?

(1/4) > >>

Tatsujin:
(If a Staff member can do a poll for this thread please!)

I'm using a backup battery that runs without electricity for 15 minutes (or less) at maximum power. This baby saved me many times during it's lifetime with me for the past months. We lost electricity for like a mere seconds almost to two full minutes these past two months about 5 or 6 times, including today (it's raining like hell in Chicago).

Do you use it or not? I'm considering of purchasing another Battery for my external HDD's, PS3 and speaker system.

Ixarku:
I use a battery backup.  I'm definitely happy I bought one.  Mine has saved me from unexpected PC shutdowns (and possible data loss or hardware damage) at least 4 times that I remember in the last year and a half.  In central Florida, especially at this time of year, thunderstorms are a very regular occurrence, and power surges and flickers (power dropping out for a second or two at a time) are pretty common.

Arveene:
Can't add a poll to a thread.. at least I can't.
* Arveene shrugs.
I use a battery backup. I highly suggest APC to anyone who plans on getting one. I live in Michigan so we get a power outage every time it friggen snows. It's fun. If you don't get frequent outages/brownouts (I get a really short brownouts at least once a week), you probably don't really need one. I think that's what was causing my video cards to go dead all the time.

Klocknov:
I will now be investing in one. I need to make sure I don't have my computer get killed by brown outs or surges, I have a good Belkin surge protector, but I think we have more problems with brown outs and power drops due to wind storms and stupid drivers... I have gone long enough without going this route so now I will probably be looking into grabbing one to throw both my boxes on like a 300 plus my radio(which makes me have the brown out suspicion due to how many times it has froze with no surge surge from the look of things..) so yeah will probably look into a 8 at min or 10 slot 300watt to backup my systems.

WingZero8788:
I don't have any at this time but I'm going to be getting a couple for all of my electronic equipment.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page