Cyberpower CP1000PFCLCD Pure Sine Wave UPS Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,400 words · ~7 min read
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now every gamer knows you should use a highquality power supply with your
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gaming PC it delivers better efficiency it delivers more a more quiet experience
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and it also gives you peace of mind because your valuable components that
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you have hooked up to it are less likely to die in a fiery power supply explosion
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which no okay they don't actually explode that often but what you can have
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in a catastrophic power supply failure is a power surge that fries other
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components in your system it's less common these days especially with high
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quality units like this particular one
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but what a lot of users don't consider
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is what kind of power you're actually feeding into your power supply so here
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we have what's called a UPS or an uninterruptible power supply this one's
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from cyber power and it is capable of a couple of things so number one is that
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it is line interactive which means that it is
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actually regulating and monitoring and cleaning
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the power that you are I can open the box uh the power that
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you are actually feeding into the power supply that is then powering your
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computer so it means there's less strain on your power supply less chance of
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failure and an overall more stable Computing experience people will say who
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I live in the first world my power is really good no no no no no no no no no
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even new buildings even in the first
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world even Wherever You Are no matter what you can have dirty AC power so that
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means whether it's little spikes or little dips uh sometimes the dips are
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experienced as what's called a brown out where uh you'll see the lights dim a
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little bit so yes these problems do exist and they are important a UPS
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also it's really heavy cuz it's full of lead batteries um a UPS
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also will allow you to have time to save
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your work and shut down your computer directly in the event of a power failure
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so give me a second here guys and I'm just going to go down what cyber power
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has to say for themselves before I keep going any longer so Power Protection for
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computers and workstations that use active power factor correction so more
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on that in a moment green power ups energy saving Technology power panel UPS
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management software so that's the software you use to well manage the UPS
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multi-function LCD power status display so we're going to do a full NC Tech tips
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episode on this one so you'll see that on my ncxc channel automatic voltage
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regulation 10 surge protected Outlets five with battery backup so that is five
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surge protected five battery backup phone coax line protection three year
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warranty and connected equipment guarantee now that's really cool because
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they will actually even guarantee that the equipment you have connected to it
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is not going to explode so this guy right here is capable of sustaining up
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to 600 watts
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and there we go that means that assuming
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you have have a a PC computer actually
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hooked up to it we're going to test this with a high- powerered gaming PC so I'm
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not even going to bother telling you guys how long it claims to run the
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connected computer for we're actually going to test it with benchmarking
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software so it will run your computer and give you a chance to either using
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the USB interface automatically shut down your PC properly in the event of a
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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
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good for your software it's good for your Hardware it's good for a lot of
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things so so far the benefits are a couple okay safely powering on and
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powering off your computer as well as the other thing that I said right
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protecting your computer from Dirty power now here's the catch most UPS's
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that are not extremely expensive are not pure sinewave UPS's so if I don't know
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if you guys know anything about AC current but it basically looks like this it goes in what's called a sine wave and
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120 volts is the difference between the dip and the peak so that's your 120 volt
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power or if you're in the EU or somewhere else where you have 240 volt
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power you just have a bigger a bigger sine wave okay so a non-peer sine wave
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UPS because these are using batteries okay they're using batteries inside here
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to deliver AC power batteries do not natively deliver AC power they deliver
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DC power so they have to kind of fake it so um less competitive modern you know I
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don't know what to call them but not as good UPS's will deliver current that
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looks like this where it actually has a square sine wave pattern now this is
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fine as an approximation of a sine wave if you're going to power a light bulb or
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if you're going to power something that is not a sensitive piece of electronic
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equipment in comes active power factor
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correction now I haven't actually looked for it on this power supply but I
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guarantee you anything that
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is over 80 plus bronze is going to have
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apfc pretty much and I'm sorry it's not
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on here but trust me it it it does it has active power factor correction
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almost any modern power supply that is a high quality power supply does that
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allows it to achieve better efficiency active power factor correction will not
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accept an ugly Square sine wave so if
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you don't have a peer sine wave ups and cyber power in this case has some very
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very low cost compared to other act uh compared to other peer sine wave models
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so if you don't have a peer sign wave UPS what can happen is your computer can
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just shut down outright as soon as it gets that Square pattern voltage input
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okay so okay we'll look at the unit a little bit here in the unboxing but the
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most important part of this video is guys subscribe to my NCC Channel
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ncom because we're going to show you guys this one versus a non-peer sine
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wave unit to show you what happens in the event of a power failure with either
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of these battery backup Solutions so we'll have a look at the unit itself
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really quickly here most of this has been like theoretical stuff so what do
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we got we got your display button we got your silence alarm button your control
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button LCD readout you got your power button all this is fairly
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straightforward on the top here we have some important notes about safety
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features and powering on and powering off and all that kind of good stuff here
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we've got some ventilation holes
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okay it's a lot more attractive than UPS's used to be risk of electric shock
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refer to the bottom of the unit for cautionary markings cool more cautionary
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markings neat uh something to be aware of with UPS's is that eventually the
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batteries inside uh will die and they can be replaced or you can get a new UPS
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or whatever but I still definitely recommend using them uh as it mentioned
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on the packaging there's coax protection as well as uh phone SL Network
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protection interesting building wiring fault indicator serial and USB
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interfaces as well as the here we go
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Surge and Battery Plus surge outlets on
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the back and a way to reset the breaker nice beefy power cord because if you're
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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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before 600 wat unit stay tuned for the ncx tech tips and thank you for checking
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