now every gamer knows you should use a highquality power supply with your
gaming PC it delivers better efficiency it delivers more a more quiet experience
and it also gives you peace of mind because your valuable components that
you have hooked up to it are less likely to die in a fiery power supply explosion
which no okay they don't actually explode that often but what you can have
in a catastrophic power supply failure is a power surge that fries other
components in your system it's less common these days especially with high
quality units like this particular one
but what a lot of users don't consider
is what kind of power you're actually feeding into your power supply so here
we have what's called a UPS or an uninterruptible power supply this one's
from cyber power and it is capable of a couple of things so number one is that
it is line interactive which means that it is
actually regulating and monitoring and cleaning
the power that you are I can open the box uh the power that
you are actually feeding into the power supply that is then powering your
computer so it means there's less strain on your power supply less chance of
failure and an overall more stable Computing experience people will say who
I live in the first world my power is really good no no no no no no no no no
even new buildings even in the first
world even Wherever You Are no matter what you can have dirty AC power so that
means whether it's little spikes or little dips uh sometimes the dips are
experienced as what's called a brown out where uh you'll see the lights dim a
little bit so yes these problems do exist and they are important a UPS
also it's really heavy cuz it's full of lead batteries um a UPS
also will allow you to have time to save
your work and shut down your computer directly in the event of a power failure
so give me a second here guys and I'm just going to go down what cyber power
has to say for themselves before I keep going any longer so Power Protection for
computers and workstations that use active power factor correction so more
on that in a moment green power ups energy saving Technology power panel UPS
management software so that's the software you use to well manage the UPS
multi-function LCD power status display so we're going to do a full NC Tech tips
episode on this one so you'll see that on my ncxc channel automatic voltage
regulation 10 surge protected Outlets five with battery backup so that is five
surge protected five battery backup phone coax line protection three year
warranty and connected equipment guarantee now that's really cool because
they will actually even guarantee that the equipment you have connected to it
is not going to explode so this guy right here is capable of sustaining up
to 600 watts
and there we go that means that assuming
you have have a a PC computer actually
hooked up to it we're going to test this with a high- powerered gaming PC so I'm
not even going to bother telling you guys how long it claims to run the
connected computer for we're actually going to test it with benchmarking
software so it will run your computer and give you a chance to either using
the USB interface automatically shut down your PC properly in the event of a
power failure or give you a chance if you're actually in the middle of using it to turn it off correctly so that's
good for your software it's good for your Hardware it's good for a lot of
things so so far the benefits are a couple okay safely powering on and
powering off your computer as well as the other thing that I said right
protecting your computer from Dirty power now here's the catch most UPS's
that are not extremely expensive are not pure sinewave UPS's so if I don't know
if you guys know anything about AC current but it basically looks like this it goes in what's called a sine wave and
120 volts is the difference between the dip and the peak so that's your 120 volt
power or if you're in the EU or somewhere else where you have 240 volt
power you just have a bigger a bigger sine wave okay so a non-peer sine wave
UPS because these are using batteries okay they're using batteries inside here
to deliver AC power batteries do not natively deliver AC power they deliver
DC power so they have to kind of fake it so um less competitive modern you know I
don't know what to call them but not as good UPS's will deliver current that
looks like this where it actually has a square sine wave pattern now this is
fine as an approximation of a sine wave if you're going to power a light bulb or
if you're going to power something that is not a sensitive piece of electronic
equipment in comes active power factor
correction now I haven't actually looked for it on this power supply but I
guarantee you anything that
is over 80 plus bronze is going to have
apfc pretty much and I'm sorry it's not
on here but trust me it it it does it has active power factor correction
almost any modern power supply that is a high quality power supply does that
allows it to achieve better efficiency active power factor correction will not
accept an ugly Square sine wave so if
you don't have a peer sine wave ups and cyber power in this case has some very
very low cost compared to other act uh compared to other peer sine wave models
so if you don't have a peer sign wave UPS what can happen is your computer can
just shut down outright as soon as it gets that Square pattern voltage input
okay so okay we'll look at the unit a little bit here in the unboxing but the
most important part of this video is guys subscribe to my NCC Channel
ncom because we're going to show you guys this one versus a non-peer sine
wave unit to show you what happens in the event of a power failure with either
of these battery backup Solutions so we'll have a look at the unit itself
really quickly here most of this has been like theoretical stuff so what do
we got we got your display button we got your silence alarm button your control
button LCD readout you got your power button all this is fairly
straightforward on the top here we have some important notes about safety
features and powering on and powering off and all that kind of good stuff here
we've got some ventilation holes
okay it's a lot more attractive than UPS's used to be risk of electric shock
refer to the bottom of the unit for cautionary markings cool more cautionary
markings neat uh something to be aware of with UPS's is that eventually the
batteries inside uh will die and they can be replaced or you can get a new UPS
or whatever but I still definitely recommend using them uh as it mentioned
on the packaging there's coax protection as well as uh phone SL Network
protection interesting building wiring fault indicator serial and USB
interfaces as well as the here we go
Surge and Battery Plus surge outlets on
the back and a way to reset the breaker nice beefy power cord because if you're
going to be powering any reasonable amount of equipment off of it you're going to need that so as mentioned
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