>pre-2008 >power outages, brownouts, and power spikes >need to buy new HDDs 1-2 times a year >need to replace monitors once every 1-3 years >need to replace motherboard every 2 years >need to replace PSU every year >replace various cards every few months
>post-2008 after buying a UPS >power outages, brownouts, and power spikes >never need to replace hardware ever again
I wish someone had told me about these things from the beginning. It is the best purchase I've ever made. What has your experience using UPSs? If you don't have one and are using more than a laptop and phone, get one.
I have small UPS, I keep it powering my router so I still have internet even when power goes down. It has 12V 7AH battery, so I can get about ~5hours. I can use it to power other stuff as well.
Angel Martinez
I have mine hooked up too. But, when power goes out here, the internet company's equipment takes a hit and internet is off for at least 5mins as their shit reboots.
Justin Cooper
bump
Thomas Torres
Imagine living in a third world shithole lmao
Justin Ramirez
I'm right behind you.
Ryan Gutierrez
im in the third world and i havent had a brownout in years lol OP must live in fucking madagascar or something
Liam Lopez
Most people don't even know when there's a brownout or power spike without gear to record it happening.
Chase Wright
>>need to replace monitors once every 1-3 years >Implying that typical monitors are damaged by power outages
A surge protector doesn't protect against most things. They are meant for serious spikes in power. Otherwise, general use would cause them to trip all the time.
They have them to.
>damage control posting
Gabriel Hernandez
Yeah I know. I work at a TV station and ours have built in LCD readouts.
Nathan Walker
From >Do you think those are PCs in the OP image? To >They have them to. Do you know how retarded you are?
Jason Mitchell
Is there a rec list of Jow Forums UPS? I'm ready to make the next leap
Angel Powell
>damage control posting
Anthony Martinez
See
Ayden Hernandez
I must be lucky or something because in 20 years of computer usage I have never had a piece of hardware die due to outage. Actually, I still have an 80GB hard drive that works from my first PC.
Shit just doesn't die.
Brandon Sullivan
>80GB hard drive >first PC Zoomer detected
Liam Parker
MY first PC. MINE. Not my parent's. It's nice that you go through life picking out the things that bother you, though.
I got tired of replacing the UPS batteries each 3 - 5 years and threw them away. I have like 2 or 3 power outages in a year, and most times the PC isn't working. UPS are useless unless you run some server or live in a 3rd world shithole,
Jayden Mitchell
>the virgin Jow Forumsentoomen versus the CHAD construction contractor
>poweroutage once or twice every month >never failed a single component maybe buy proper hardware next time
Alexander Powell
>have ups >doing firmware update on nas >transient power blip occurs in middle of update >nas gets bricked >ups did fuck all I think if it wasn't plugged into a UPS the power dropout would have been so quick that I would have got away with it. As it happened, the UPS detected that the power went out, switched to battery, but the mains power came back on so quick that the delay in switching from mains->battery->back to mains again was long enough for the UPS to get powered off mid-firmware update.
Lucas Perez
you should try measuring your wall voltage/freq youll be surprise
Cooper Rivera
>tired of browsing Amazon, buying and installing the battery in under 5 minutes, every 5 years.
larp
Jeremiah Phillips
I've got 3 3d printers hooked up to a $80 psu from costco.
What I'm expecting is that it can keep one 3d printer running for 30 minutes with the heatbed on, and over an hour without the heatbed. Haven't tested it yet or had an outage. How reasonable is this expectation?
That still doesn't protect you from a lack of voltage or a total outage.
Grayson Williams
It isn't just outages.
You should have them to protect again't low voltage and other dirty power.
Ethan Phillips
Only if you live in a place where the mains power occasionally has low voltage and other dirty power. I'm pretty sure that's just not a thing here.
Brayden Gomez
you know, those things burn out after the first spike and likely wont protect after that at least the ones i know don't cut power when triggered a decent PSU is capable of that as well ACSHUALLY a UPS has horrible output voltage, like a fancy car inverter. well at least if the unit doesnt have a sinus wave filter ($$) and utilities are designed to take 10% over or under voltage without issues
Robert Price
What "here"?
It happens everywhere.
It doesn't give a fuck what continent you are on or politcal boundries.
Josiah Collins
>What "here"? The Netherlands.
>It happens everywhere. Everywhere with shit-tier utilities infrastructure, sure.
>It doesn't give a fuck what continent you are on or politcal boundries. [citation needed]
Mason Scott
>sinus wave filter ...sine?
Jace Long
Yeah so you have a volatge meter in all the time?
Your flood prone country isn't immune from power grid damage.
He made no error in his use of words.
Julian Perez
>Yeah so you have a volatge meter in all the time? Me? No. I have a friend who's a high voltage electrician who is into that sort of shit, and he tells me things.
>Your flood prone country isn't immune from power grid damage. In a properly redundant grid, damage to the grid doesn't need to cause any consequences for the mains condition. Power failures can occasionally happen (I have seen one, neighbourhood-wide, in 30 years), but brownouts and dirty power and shit can easily be avoided completely with proper management.
