Spec me a ups

Btone

Btone

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I have a PC on the farm that keeps randomly restarting, after much test I have come to the conclusion that it the mains power at fault. Reckon some sort of ups is needed, it have sort out brownout, power surges, and in general a dirty supply (we have a dozen or more 3.5kw motors which i think is causing the problem)
 
Any idea how long you want/need to cover and what the power draw of the PC is? Looks like you can get some smallish (400W, 800VA) unit for around £55.

Also worth considering if you want it to be able to tell the PC to shutdown on a low battery state too.
 
You've got two types, ones that switch over when the mains fails, and another is where it's constantly going through the battery filtering it.

Something to do with clean sinewave versus standby type.
 
hornetstinger said:
You've got two types, ones that switch over when the mains fails, and another is where it's constantly going through the battery filtering it.

Something to do with clean sinewave versus standby type.
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I'd assume the inline regulator type is the way to go from the OP description.
 
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