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Battery Backup

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While admittedly this isn't an actual power supply inside the computer, it does supply power to one if it's needed. If this isn't the right sub-forum, please move it mods.

I'm looking for a battery backup, the power tends to go out a lot where I live in thunder storms (usually only for a few minutes) and I've lost information more than once because of it so I'm finally just going to throw a little money down to fix this problem. Does anyone have any recommendations as far as this goes?

It's just going to be for the rig in my sig, I highly doubt I'll have anything else connected to it and as I said it usually only goes out for a few minutes most of the time so I won't be needing something with an uber huge capacity but if it's not too expensive and can offer me a decent amount of time to play around if the power is out for a little longer that would be cool. Recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
 
If you live in an area with bad power a UPS or line stabilizer is one of the best investments you can make for protecting your hardware. In the old days for home use I'd recommend higher end APC models, but honestly just about anything works now if you buy the right capacity. Cheaper models tend to overrate their capacity a little.

I own this model. It runs my 27 inch monitor, my computer, and speakers just fine. You can go lower, but honestly I think buying too much UPS is better than buying too little. What is your budget?
 
fishrule said:
If you live in an area with bad power a UPS or line stabilizer is one of the best investments you can make for protecting your hardware. In the old days for home use I'd recommend higher end APC models, but honestly just about anything works now if you buy the right capacity. Cheaper models tend to overrate their capacity a little.

I own this model. It runs my 27 inch monitor, my computer, and speakers just fine. You can go lower, but honestly I think buying too much UPS is better than buying too little. What is your budget?
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How long does that usually last you if you were to just leave it running?
 
With the monitor and CPU running? I am guessing somewhere about 15 minutes. This is NOT under a gaming load though.
 
Understandable. That's long enough to save all of my crap though before my computer crashes.
 
Although I have heard that many times. The 20 or so crappy simulated sinewave (looks more like a square wave than sine) UPSs I have on desktop machines at work (all with active PFC) all work fine the 5 or so times we loose power each year.

Edit: Although it may be that the most desktops at work are less than 200W full load and I purchase 1000VA UPSs. Generally we get at least 30 minutes run time from a 2 battery 1000VA UPS.
 
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