what's heavy and every gamer needs one
but nobody wants to spend money on it
ow a UPS this is the gaming ups and you
laugh but whether it's a workstation or whether it's a gaming PC you should
probably have a UPS and eat sponsored
this video where we're going to be taking a look at what is to my knowledge
the first ever gaming uninterruptible
power supply now this is not to be confused with the power supply unit or
PSU that you're gaming PC already has that thing
converts AC power to DC power to ensure
that all your sensitive Electronics can operate correctly what this does is
entirely different and its main functions are twofold one whoa is that
it actually cleans up any potentially dirty power that is coming into your PSU
so say for example the voltage in your
house is lower than spec or you have other noisy or high draw devices that
are being turned on and turned off like air conditioners or blenders or vacuum
cleaners this will ensure that whatever's coming in will get tidied up
and smoothed out before going out to your presumably expensive PC and one of
the main features of this particular unit aside from the
removable display for gamers Wireless
okay we're definitely taking a look at that later one of the main features of
this one is that it is a pure sine wave unit that means it tends to be more
reliable and efficient and transition more seamlessly between Mains power and
battery power because that's the second main feature of a UPS it allows you to
actually continue to run even a high-powered gaming PC like this one in
the event of a power outage not for a long time mind you Eaton rates this one
at about 17 minutes of operation under 300 watts of load and up to 50 minutes
of operation under 250 watts of load with their optional extended battery
pack so that's plenty of time to get to the next checkpoint or wrap up a
document you're working on and save and shut down properly of course that
doesn't mean you're actually limited to just 250 or 300 watts of load oh
actually I shouldn't put this down here yet oh this
is a 1500 volt amp unit which means it can do a total of about 900 watts
protected but not all of these Outlets are the same this right here is the
master ups and surge Outlet this is the one we're going to plug our computer
into all of these are controlled by the
master so UPS means that it is uninterruptible it is battery backed up
and surge protection means that just in the event of ugly dirty power coming in
it's not going to be passed through to your sensitive Electronics so these guys
right here are surge only all of these are both Surge and Battery backed up but
what's really cool is that the master controls all of these secondary units so
when the load on the master goes under 20 watts all of these will actually turn
off it's a cool way to put your workstation to sleep and then have all
of your lights and attach peripherals just switch off instead of being
annoying vampire loads that are sucking away your power it'll also do surge
protection on your rj11 or j45 connection so for your Lan connection
for your gaming PC for example but none of this inherently makes this gaming
let's talk about what it does I guess you could argue that USB type A
or USB type-c charging port on the front is kind of gaming but lots of non-gamers
charge phones too so what really makes it gaming is the RGB
whoa you can see our voltage is a little low
here in our office we do know that we have kind of ugly power here but now
we've confirmed it 124 minutes of run time if all we're powering is this
display that makes sense it uses lead acid batteries that's why it's so heavy
and that's also why it takes about seven hours to charge from 10 to 90 percent
and uh it's got some other cool features so let's say you're not actually there
trip light by Eaton has a software utility that will if you connect to your
PC via USB which you can see I'm about to do ah there you go notify your
computer of a power outage and then automatically shut it down once the
battery reaches a critical level so that way if you're on vacation or something
you're let's say you hooked it up to a server instead of a gaming PC it can
automatically shut it down safely and ensure that no data gets corrupted or
anything like that this is cool apparently the RGB is configured out of
the box to change color depending on
your load hey there we go oh now she's kicked in
this thing draws 153 Watts just on boot
up wait I'm sitting here like an idiot I was trying to figure out like oh man why
would anyone really need like a detachable screen for their ups
so they're not crouched over their UPS trying to figure out what's going on
with their computer like a ah 20 hours of battery life and
apparently it works up to what do they say like 12 feet away or something like that gaming UPS Brandon I've officially
seen it all oh that reminds me ShortCircuit has a new hoodie there's this
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this is so extra it's definitely the
right word this is very extra and if you want this feature Eaton is the only one
on the market who can provide it no one else has a detachable display for their
gaming UPS not a one there's our banana
for scale there okay so we're sucking back wow 260 Watts right now just
sitting at the desktop man our input voltage is low here yeah it's like 105
volts what is that to be clear when I'm
complaining about our low voltage I'm talking about from the Transformers here
in our building what you have to create a Bethesda account now why gaming I'm
just not gonna play this game anymore there easy cyberpunk continue without a
cam look at that this is a freaking spicy computer I forgot what kind of
specs we had on this thing I don't even have the monitor hooked up to this yet
the fan is definitely audible but the
UPS Works hardest when it's charging the battery or running off of battery so
what I suspect is that once the battery is charged it should quiet down
now what I want to know is even with just 44 battery life left
is it going to manage to sustain this what
the answer is yes but I have no idea for how long because my display is over here
input 0 volts ac yeah zero Hertz that makes sense and oh oh oh that remaining
battery percentage it's going down pretty quick oh we got one minute of one
time that makes sense uh we should probably plug it back in yeah yeah I'm
working on it there we go so that's the idea you have
a brown out or even a short power outage your gaming session is completely
uninterrupted or whatever else it is that you happen to be doing while we're
waiting for Eaton's power alert software to install we're going to go ahead and hook up our extended battery this guy
right here uh uses the same chassis but you can see there's like no fan there
there's no Outlets nothing like that
thanks all you need to do is take off
this external battery plate I think
I actually don't know I'm I am literally guessing right now
plug in this there you go and then it just goes next
to your primary unit there's no external display on the extra battery unit this
is just a dummy our power alert system tray is set up so now we just go to the
web interface all right scan for devices here we go Discovery completed
um oh I'm not sure if I plugged it in all the way actually
uh
well yeah it shut down safely let us find out
why wait it was only asleep my game is even
still running okay hold on one or more devices our initial
I'm sure there's a user's guide somewhere that explains what's happening but
I didn't read it this is really a 90 page document
can tell Eaton's pedigree is Enterprise
which is a good thing
ah here we go shut down my system when the amount of
battery power remaining Falls below let's say
20 right
apply let's go ahead and pull the power and see if it shuts down gracefully
ready and boom
ah where'd the thing go yeah
okay oh okay yes
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