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
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