{"video_id":"97vIGYgfsG0","title":"Opti-UPS Thunder Shield Series Uninterruptible Power Supply Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":417,"segments":[{"start_s":7.319,"end_s":14.32,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of the Thunders Shield series uninterruptible power","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.08,"end_s":17.16,"text":"supply from opt UPS we in particular","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.32,"end_s":22.279,"text":"have the 2250 so this is the 1200","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.84,"end_s":25.039,"text":"watt yes absorb that you guys 1200 watt","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.279,"end_s":29.24,"text":"UPS from this particular line and what is it for okay emergency backup for home","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.279,"end_s":32.36,"text":"and offices offering unpass protection at the best 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a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":400.4,"end_s":406.319,"text":"huge advocate and they are as valuable as they are heavy and they are very","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":404.759,"end_s":411.28,"text":"heavy thank you for checking out my unboxing of the opt UPS 2250b Thunders","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":409.479,"end_s":415.0,"text":"Shield series don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":412.72,"end_s":418.0,"text":"reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of the Thunders Shield series uninterruptible power supply from opt UPS we in particular have the 2250 so this is the 1200 watt yes absorb that you guys 1200 watt UPS from this particular line and what is it for okay emergency backup for home and offices offering unpass protection at the best Val it actually isn't that expensive compared to their uh was their durable series one that we looked at before uh so this is more for Home and Office use whereas the other one for suggested uses had things like uh medical equipment so that should give you some idea of the class of product this is more uh consumer and small business whereas the other one is more big business friendly the other one had Advanced features like being able to hook up an external battery for you know hours of on time whereas this doesn't really have that kind of thing okay ideal solution for multiple applications PC and Mac workstations Network gateways security surveillance and video recorders POS systems and ATM machines so stuff that can't go down but if it does go down people don't die uh okay TS series offers userfriendly installation and peace of mind operation wide range AVR automatic voltage regulator this is good because it will actually keep your parts lasting longer electrical noise filtration protection from electrical surges spikes and lightning remote control of connected equipment and Energy savings functions Advanced Battery management okay well this is pretty straightforward let's go ahead and get this opened up UPS's are heavy um this one is heavy I usually have trouble getting them out of the box so what we're probably going to do is we're going to turn off the camera while I try and get it extracted so oh look at that helpfully labeled rear and front after we have a look at the packaging using a nice thick soft foam which is excellent and good to see especially because these things are so heavy that when you ship them around it would be a disaster if they uh you know broke the foam inside and like knocked around and destroyed themselves okay it comes with a nice thick power cord and uh let's have a look at the other accessories really quick here comes with a USB cable so again this is another difference between that more commercial industrial model that came with a Serial cable and uh didn't even work without an optional software download with USB like it was yeah it was meant for cereal whereas this one doesn't even come with a seral cable this is more con consum oriented model it also comes with a phone cord oh yeah that's right BL no no I'm just I'm just making I'm just saying that uh it is useful the reason the phone cord is useful is because it actually will prevent power surges from buying your phone in theory power does actually go through the phone line so there you go all right UPS monitoring software Sentinel revision v1.5 works with any OS pretty much like ever on the Windows platform okay cool all right and yeah oh that's heavy okay all right this one is also more consumer friendly looking so it has uh actually oh yeah the other one the other one's here so instead of looking like a piece of equipment from the80s uh I'm not going to be able to move this so I'm just going to kind of turn it there you go it looks like uh more like Sleek you know the kind of thing that could have next to your gaming rig that wouldn't look that out of place sort of sort of look to it okay so there's your power button there's your indicator LED this one doesn't have a front display however you can use the software to monitor a variety of the features here is a brief instructional guide on how to do a variety of things including how to turn it on which is critical if you can't figure out how to turn it on then you won't have much success using this product also unlike the Industrial Level product it doesn't have a cooling fan which again makes it more suitable for home use because let me tell you the cooling fan on the durable series 1 is pretty loud more at place in a server room than in an office so here's our input here is our ups output so you've got up to four things that you can plug in so you know there's your computer your monitor your I don't know fax machine and your you know um like iPhone charger no you probably don't need to charge your iPhone doesn't matter if the power goes goes out your iPhone can just stop charging it's okay remember guys the point of a UPS is like lightning strikes or you know something explodes the power goes out something bad happens and there's some kind of a surge or some kind of damage that can be done to the equipment on the other side this guy takes care of that so as soon as something bad happens a it is keeping the voltages constant which is better on your equipment it is less stressful on the power supplies in your equipment whether it's a computer power supply or whether it's like a passive power supply doesn't matter it's less stressful to have a constant healthy voltage being fed to it and it also serves to switch to battery backup in the event that something goes terribly wrong which will keep things from shutting down without uh without correctly shutting down without closing all your software saving all your work this kind of stuff can save your bacon so there's your USB port oh UPS output that's sort of interesting does it have five or I'm not sure what the difference is between this UPS output and this UPS output but um there you go okay so RJ45 RJ rj11 in and out so you can either power surge protect your Ethernet or your um phone line but I don't really see any reason why you would want to Surge protect Ethernet unless um yeah I can't really think of a reason for that so the foam Line's probably the more relevant one and I think that pretty much covers it don't forget guys lots of things can go wrong especially when the power goes out whether you're flashing a BIOS you know updating any particular firmware you should always be plugged into a UPS because it'll buy you at least a few minutes you know even 5 minutes can be the difference between finishing flashing a BIOS and just having one flake out and you slick and I I even had the power go out here in the tech tips room when we were flashing a BIOS once and the only reason I don't know if that board's handy or anything but the the only reason that board didn't Breck was because it had a dual BIOS feature that had a Hardware switch we were able to just switch over to the other BIOS and Flash that one once the power came back on so UPS's can save your bacon I am a huge advocate and they are as valuable as they are heavy and they are very heavy thank you for checking out my unboxing of the opt UPS 2250b Thunders Shield series don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}