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
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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