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Backup Battery. Do you use it?
Arveene:
--- Quote from: Klocknov on August 20, 2009, 12:11:17 AM ---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.
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Make sure you get a quality UPS. (a good one will be at least $100, probably more) Most UPS will protect against overvoltages, but some of the cheaper ones won't protect your stuff from undervoltages. (brownouts) You might need more than a 300 watt to protect both systems.
Klocknov:
So I may want to look into a 500 then??
misachaos:
Ive been using Backup battery alot, but since all the hurricanes (Florida yay) Its in need of a battery change. but hey, 6yrs and it still works. Worth the money for saying your more expensive stuff. Rather shell out $150 for safety instead of $800 for another pc or whatever you end up losing.
Definitely need a place to hide its hugeness, but the new home theater ones from Monster are nice. I say buy one of those that monitors Voltage and stuff from monster. always found it useful if i had to many things on ^^".
Sosseres:
I have been living here for close to two years now. One power outage, scheduled for maintenance. Where I lived prior to this, 0. Where I lived prior to that, only when lightning since it was a house a bit of a way out and the spikes occasionally brought it down for a sec or so. I like reliable power removing the need for backup battery.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: misachaos on August 20, 2009, 12:53:24 PM ---Ive been using Backup battery alot, but since all the hurricanes (Florida yay) Its in need of a battery change. but hey, 6yrs and it still works. Worth the money for saying your more expensive stuff. Rather shell out $150 for safety instead of $800 for another pc or whatever you end up losing.
Definitely need a place to hide its hugeness, but the new home theater ones from Monster are nice. I say buy one of those that monitors Voltage and stuff from monster. always found it useful if i had to many things on ^^".
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Perfect example. Thank you. I blew over 1500 US dollars on my computer and I'd rather pay an extra 100+ dollars for a backup battery to protect my computer and equipment. I'm considering of purchasing a (low) grade computer (custom build) with Duo 2 Core, 2x (9800 nVidia video cards), I already have my old Ram (800Mhz Dual Channel Raptors, 4GB) and the other equipment won't be as big. I don't know ... I just don't want to sit there without a computer. I may seriously kill myself if that ever happens! It did happen few times and I was bored out of my mind ... =[ my computer is my best friend. Anyways, the one I have is 600 watts or something (no idea what it means). If you shell out around 100-130 dollars now you'll get something better than mine. I put 120ish dollar for mine and it is freaking super sweet. Also, whenever an outage happens it starts beeping (woke up me couple of times at night) and it will automatically put your computer to sleep (must have hibernate turned on ... how do you turn it on in Vista?!) .. it used to do that for me on my Windows XP Pro, but not on my Vista 64-bit.
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