{"video_id":"CdawTY8j0pw","title":"Opti-UPS GNL1025P Line Interactive UPS Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":373,"segments":[{"start_s":7.279,"end_s":15.16,"text":"welcome to my unboxing in first look at a line interactive UPS from opt UPS so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.36,"end_s":21.96,"text":"we've had a look at a couple UPS's from them including the beastly one from","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.68,"end_s":24.56,"text":"their durable series which um was loud","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.96,"end_s":30.039,"text":"but beastly more for industrial use as well as one of their more consumer ones","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.199,"end_s":34.64,"text":"this guy right here is a higher end consumer level units so it has some of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":32.92,"end_s":37.96,"text":"the features that you'd 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every 10 seconds low battery will sound sound every second and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":360.96,"end_s":366.44,"text":"overload will sound every .5 seconds so you can tell what the alarm means just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.12,"end_s":373.199,"text":"by listening to it if you guys have seen the Faulty Towers episode then just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.319,"end_s":373.199,"text":"remember it's a semitone higher","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing in first look at a line interactive UPS from opt UPS so we've had a look at a couple UPS's from them including the beastly one from their durable series which um was loud but beastly more for industrial use as well as one of their more consumer ones this guy right here is a higher end consumer level units so it has some of the features that you'd expect from a premium UPS like being line interactive and I'll explain what that is in a moment but it doesn't have like an industrial cooling fan going on or uh you know other things that would make it not really appropriate for home or office use it's also quite a bit smaller and less heavy than that Uber one that we were dealing with before so let's see what OPI has to say for themselves on the box here this is is the 1025 P which means it's good for up to 615 Watts line interactive what does that mean line interactive means that if you have crappy power going into the UPS even when it's not running off of battery it will be adjusting and fixing the input voltage for you so that your computer or whatever other devices you have hooked up to it are never going to see ugly dirty power that can over the longterm or even the short term damage your components and cause instability line interactive is a must if you have a high-end system and you want to take care of it this one right here simulated sine wave so yes it is not true sine wave or pure sine wave or whatever else the case may be however that doesn't necessarily mean that every active power factor correction power supply is going to just turn off we actually did a fair amount of testing on this with a simulated sine wave UPS in the past versus a pierine wave ups and we actually found that the perer sine wave UPS we had which is from op to UPS but one of the competitors who shall remain nameless um was less compatible with active PFC power supplies than the simulated one so it's not as cut and dried as simulated sine wave is bad and pure sine wave is good so bear that in mind okay read reviews would probably be the best thing the best advice I can give rated out Vol rated output R input voltage range the rated voltage plus or minus 25% so if your power is like super dirty and it's like 100 volts or 140 volts input it'll still be able to fix that for you no problem okay output voltage regulation plus or minus 5% on battery that's just fine I mean batter's uh battery's tough transfer time is 4 milliseconds start on battery yes Auto restart yes it does communicate with your computer so you can use USB in order to there we go to get it to tell your computer hey you know there's no power you're going to want to shut that down there and uh shut down properly buddy or uh you know bad things are going to happen and that's basically what it says but like in binary um AVR up to the for battery backup to bypass Outlets okay UPS shuts down at 110% load for 60 seconds or 100 okay overload protection fuse circuit break so overload protection basically 615 watts is good enough for your okay remember guys if your computer consumes 500 watts that means this guy has to Output about 600 watts to sustain it because of the inefficiency again at the power supply level so basically this is good for your single Tower with one high-end CPU one high-end GPU this is not for like SLI or triple SLI configurations or anything like that especially if you're planning to have something like your monitor connected to it as well and you got like a lot of peripherals plugged into your board so bear in mind this is for like you know your basic gaming system and not much else they do have much higher end units including from this series they have one that can do up to 900 watts that guy you can do an SLI system no problem and then you know probably your monitor as well and I wouldn't worry too much about it so uh it's heavy you know lead batteries are heavy and uh that's pretty typical of a UPS you've also got an LED readout on this one which on that lower end unit we didn't see so this gives you a lot of useful information including the battery level as well as what mode the UPS is running in or in what mode the UPS is running I should be making an effort to speak correctly on this channel since you know maybe I'll start Linus like English language tips at some point on the back you got your input you have four battery backup and surge protected and actively you know taken care of outputs and then two simple passrs just surge protection no battery backup you've also got Ethernet protection or you can actually plug in rj11 which be would be your phone line so you can protect those as well and there's your USB interface whoops I turned it on ventilation is handled by vents in the side no active cooling on this guy so it's going to be pretty much silent you might get a slight Buzz because there's some pretty high powerered stuff going on inside of UPS's and I'm just going to check my notes really quick here just blatantly looking at my cheat sheet while slick pretends it's not happening by looking somewhere else uh yeah I think we pretty much covered everything uh oh yeah except the included phone cable and USB cable and Sentinel software which you can download the latest on the opt UPS website and I think that pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips from unboxing reviews and other computer videos and don't forget if you have a computer you care about you pretty much should be running it off of a UPS it's um not actually that optional there's a couple little things here you might want to know battery mode will sound every 10 seconds low battery will sound sound every second and overload will sound every .5 seconds so you can tell what the alarm means just by listening to it if you guys have seen the Faulty Towers episode then just remember it's a semitone higher"}