Recommend me a home UPS

[jesusbuiltmycar]

An anyone recommend a decent home UPS? I would like it to run an PC, a NAS, router & 2 monitors. budget around £600

[mikef]

I use an APC BE850 with UK sockets - Amazon link. Around £100, so I imagine £600 would buy you something with much more grunt

You'll need to do your own calculation of how long any unit will power your specific equipment for. I also have a smaller APC on my broadband router and wifi hub which is in a different location

[Captain_Morgan]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

An anyone recommend a decent home UPS? I would like it to run an PC, a NAS, router & 2 monitors. budget around £600

For how long?

[Mr Pointy]

Just be aware that a lot of the smaller/cheaper UPSs are not designed with a replaceable battery so are essentially disposable items with a life of 2-3 years. The cheap ones also have a fairly crude approximation of a sine wave output.

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Captain_Morgan said:

jesusbuiltmycar said:

An anyone recommend a decent home UPS? I would like it to run an PC, a NAS, router & 2 monitors. budget around £600

For how long?

Probably half an hour to an hour.

I had one about 20 years ago which lasted about this length of time which could power a PC & Monitor - it was a quality piece of kit which I bought from a client, that was commercial kit and I realise that home use kit is often cheaper and less robust / performant.

[Gren]

mikef said:

I use an APC BE850 with UK sockets - Amazon link. Around £100, so I imagine £600 would buy you something with much more grunt

You'll need to do your own calculation of how long any unit will power your specific equipment for. I also have a smaller APC on my broadband router and wifi hub which is in a different location

I've got that exact same model but only use it to run my modem, router and hive hub. It should keep them up for an hour or so.

I have a similar (older model) connected to my PC and monitor. It only lasts a few short minutes - enough to get over quick power cuts and to close things down properly

Never had any issues with either although the (replaceable) battery is starting to go on the older on - it is 5 years old or so now. I'd recommend the brand but you'd need something in the x,000 Va size to work for the timescales you mention

[somouk]

You can get refurb units online but I often recommend the cyberpower ones like this:

https://www.ebuyer.com/368309-cyberpower-intellige...

[mikef]

It’s certainly an argument for working on a laptop at home (MacBook Pro in my case). When power cuts occur (a regular occurrence where I live) UPS can keep broadband, Wi-Fi and NAS going for an hour, I’m OK to lose power to monitors and printer and display switches to the laptop screen so Zoom calls continue uninterrupted

My gaming PC is also on the UPS but I don’t use that for work so it’s not usually powered on and I’ll power it down during a power cut if it is on

[tr7v8]

You need to calculate your power draw & then your runtime. There is a calculator on the website
https://www.se.com/uk/en/product-category/8000-uni...

An hour may need extra add on battery packs, 30 mins should be OK though.
This is my day job, well designing data centres for customers is, so ping me a PM if needed.

[Captain_Morgan]

It’ll depend on the load but I don’t think you’ll get a hour run time in your budget.

https://www.apc.com/shop/uk/en/tools/ups_selector/...

[Griffith4ever]

APC Back-UPS 700 Watt / 1400 VA, 230V, AVR, IEC Sockets - BX1400UI

Prob discontinued but the specs will give you an idea. Was £90

Gaming pc (Inc speakers etc)
Two monitors (only the main one on the ups)
Router
Synology RAID NAS
Desk lamp
ADSL WiFi router.

I get about half an hour, and the windows app shuts everything down when the batts get low.

Not user serviceable but I've opened it and replaced the batteries once in 5 years for £18 each, I think there were two of them.

Super useful and apart from anything else, keeps the internet going when we get short power outages which are common for us.

Edited by Griffith4ever on Friday 12th August 08:12