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