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welcome to my unboxing of the Thunders Shield series uninterruptible power

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supply from opt UPS we in particular

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have the 2250 so this is the 1200

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watt yes absorb that you guys 1200 watt

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UPS from this particular line and what is it for okay emergency backup for home

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and offices offering unpass protection at the best Val

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it actually isn't that expensive compared to their uh was their durable

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series one that we looked at before uh so this is more for Home and Office use

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whereas the other one for suggested uses had things like uh medical equipment so

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that should give you some idea of the class of product this is more uh

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consumer and small business whereas the other one is more big business friendly

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the other one had Advanced features like being able to hook up an external

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battery for you know hours of on time whereas this doesn't really have that

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kind of thing okay ideal solution for multiple applications PC and Mac

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workstations Network gateways security surveillance and video recorders POS

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systems and ATM machines so stuff that can't go down but if it does go down

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people don't die uh okay TS series offers userfriendly installation and

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peace of mind operation wide range AVR

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automatic voltage regulator this is good because it will actually keep your parts

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lasting longer electrical noise filtration protection from electrical

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surges spikes and lightning remote control of connected equipment and

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Energy savings functions Advanced Battery management okay well this is

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pretty straightforward let's go ahead and get this opened up UPS's are heavy

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um this one is heavy I usually have trouble getting them out of the box so

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what we're probably going to do is we're going to turn off the camera while I try

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and get it extracted so oh look at that helpfully labeled rear and front after

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we have a look at the packaging using a nice thick soft foam which is excellent

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and good to see especially because these things are so heavy that when you ship

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them around it would be a disaster if they uh you know broke the foam inside

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and like knocked around and destroyed themselves okay it comes with a nice

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thick power cord and uh let's have a look at the other accessories really

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quick here comes with a USB cable so

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again this is another difference between that more commercial industrial model

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that came with a Serial cable and uh didn't even work without an optional

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software download with USB like it was yeah it was meant for cereal whereas

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this one doesn't even come with a seral cable this is more con consum oriented

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model it also comes with a phone

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cord oh yeah that's right BL no no I'm just I'm just making I'm just saying

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that uh it is useful the reason the phone cord is useful is because it

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actually will prevent power surges from buying your phone in theory power does

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actually go through the phone line so there you go all right UPS monitoring

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software Sentinel revision v1.5 works

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with any OS pretty much like ever on the

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Windows platform okay

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cool all right and yeah oh that's heavy okay all

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right this one is also more consumer friendly looking so it has uh actually

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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

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going to be able to move this so I'm just going to kind of turn it there you

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go it looks like uh more like Sleek you

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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

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look to it okay so there's your power button there's your indicator LED this one doesn't have a front display however

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you can use the software to monitor a variety of the features here is a brief

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instructional guide on how to do a variety of things including how to turn

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it on which is critical if you can't figure out how to turn it on then you

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won't have much success using this product also unlike the Industrial Level

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product it doesn't have a cooling fan which again makes it more suitable for

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home use because let me tell you the cooling fan on the durable series 1 is

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pretty loud more at place in a server room than in an office so here's our

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input here is our ups output so you've

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got up to four things that you can plug in so you know there's your computer

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your monitor your I don't know fax machine and your you know

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um like iPhone charger no you probably don't need to

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charge your iPhone doesn't matter if the power goes goes out your iPhone can just

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stop charging it's okay remember guys the point of a UPS is like lightning

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strikes or you know something explodes the power goes out something bad happens

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and there's some kind of a surge or some kind of damage that can be done to the

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equipment on the other side this guy takes care of that so as soon as

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something bad happens a it is keeping

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the voltages constant which is better on your equipment it is less stressful on

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the power supplies in your equipment whether it's a computer power supply or

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whether it's like a passive power supply doesn't matter it's less stressful to

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have a constant healthy voltage being fed to it and it also serves to switch

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to battery backup in the event that something goes terribly wrong which will

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keep things from shutting down without uh without correctly shutting down

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without closing all your software saving all your work this kind of stuff can

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save your bacon so there's your USB

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port oh UPS output that's sort of interesting does

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it have five or I'm not sure what the difference is

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between this UPS output and this UPS output but um there you go okay so

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RJ45 RJ rj11 in and out so you can

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either power surge protect your Ethernet or your um phone line but I don't really

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see any reason why you would want to Surge protect Ethernet unless

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um yeah I can't really think of a reason for that so the foam Line's probably the

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more relevant one and I think that pretty much covers

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it don't forget guys lots of things can

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go wrong especially when the power goes out whether you're flashing a BIOS you

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know updating any particular firmware you should always be plugged into a UPS

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because it'll buy you at least a few minutes you know even 5 minutes can be

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the difference between finishing flashing a BIOS and just having one

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flake out and you slick and I I even had the power go out here in the tech tips

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room when we were flashing a BIOS once and the only reason I don't know if that

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board's handy or anything but the the only reason that board didn't Breck was

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because it had a dual BIOS feature that had a Hardware switch we were able to just switch over to the other BIOS and

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Flash that one once the power came back on so UPS's can save your bacon I am a

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huge advocate and they are as valuable as they are heavy and they are very

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heavy thank you for checking out my unboxing of the opt UPS 2250b Thunders

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