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[ozz]

you bloody beauty, the Dell UPS is on its way tomorrow, ive just got the tracking number, should be here wednesday, thursday the latest, a bit of piece of mind comin, i just gotta get the right power leads for the psus from the ups

[Macsbeach98]

Good show how much was freight?

[Mr.Scott]

Nice big unit. You stole that. Good job.

[Shadyreaper]

that is a nice UPS nice snag man I need to get me 2 UPS just for safety

[ozz]

i was gunna go with another unit but i was just lookin around and saw the dell unit and said nah cant be true, gotta be somethin wrong there, so i asked pete about it to have a look for me and he said go for it, itll be a good unit, so i rang the guy, hes in sydney and hes a genuine seller too, i asked him about it and he exactly the same as what he said in his listing of it, i asked him where he got it from , he said he bought it in an auction and he plugged it in and it charged saying battery 100% ..  he said postage would  be $25, so i took it, im not drivin to sydney, 3+ hours travel there and back for $25 courier cost with couriers plus,

the electrician said this would be a good deal too but then i saw the dell, i also rang the electrician and asked him about it and told him its spec and he said the same as pete, go for it lol, i was just lucky and johnny on the spot i spose

 www.ebay.com.au/itm/191139811357?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[Shadyreaper]

I know the one you got goes anywhere from $200-500 here I havent looked on ebay that was prices new and used from amazon

[ozz]

well all i can do is hope i havent bought a boat anchor and it works properly

[Shadyreaper]

hey even if the batteries are dead you can get them for like $20 each if you got newegg there just hope that board inside is good thats all

[ozz]

Mar 20, 2017 17:42:01 GMT -5 Shadyreaper said:

hey even if the batteries are dead you can get them for like $20 each if you got newegg there just hope that board inside is good thats all

ill keep that in mind shady thx

[Vinster]

Mar 19, 2017 21:52:02 GMT -5 ozz said:

Mar 19, 2017 21:43:32 GMT -5 Vinster said:

that's too bad Ozzie, my 1300w psu from EVGA has been great.

Vin

yep im pretty pissed off vinnie, 2 of the same failed, hope yours stays strong mate, all the bullshit again of going thru the r m a shit again, what a pain in the arse, it would be interesting to know when yours was actually produced, maybe its an earlier model, i know youve said prior that yours has been rock solid and that a fair while ago now, when did you firstly buy it ?

I have a heafty surge suppression power bar, it's suppose to have a $100,000k warranty on anything that's connected to it... I don't ever expect them to be good on it if something does go (I'd have to somehow prove what was connected to it and not everything in the house). but my unit was bought on Feb, 5, 2015, the serial number on EVGA's site doesn't give me the build date. I do have it registered on thier site.

Vin

[ozz]

Mar 20, 2017 20:14:13 GMT -5 Vinster said:

Mar 19, 2017 21:52:02 GMT -5 ozz said:

yep im pretty pissed off vinnie, 2 of the same failed, hope yours stays strong mate, all the bullshit again of going thru the r m a shit again, what a pain in the arse, it would be interesting to know when yours was actually produced, maybe its an earlier model, i know youve said prior that yours has been rock solid and that a fair while ago now, when did you firstly buy it ?

I have a heafty surge suppression power bar, it's suppose to have a $100,000k warranty on anything that's connected to it... I don't ever expect them to be good on it if something does go (I'd have to somehow prove what was connected to it and not everything in the house). but my unit was bought on Feb, 5, 2015, the serial number on EVGA's site doesn't give me the build date. I do have it registered on thier site.

Vin

a picture paints a thousand words vinnie, id be taking a pic of everything hooked up to it for reference just incase, hopefully now when this UPS  system comes and the new power board with surge protection my worries for surges, overloads, spikes will be all gone, i bought my first evga psu april or may 2015 so i guess itd be the same as yours, cos i emailed them about it in jan 2016 and said its only been in working here for me for 8 mths, i just checked my emails to them, and im havin trouble gettin onto em now cos the link they gave me is coming up on an evga page but a 404 error message with it, its such a pain in the arse to RMA stuff, but im gunna get thru to em and have it replaced but i want a different model of psu, i dont want a 3rd one of the same model blowin up again
no evga serial number doesnt give me a build date either on either of them ive had or i wouldve written it down for sure

[Vinster]

depending on the brand of UPS, they sometimes have utilities (APC has PowerChute as an example) that will monitor the UPS and tell you how much/little your power is and the number of spikes and brown-outs.. those would be interesting stats to know.

Vin

[ozz]

Mar 21, 2017 6:17:09 GMT -5 Vinster said:

depending on the brand of UPS, they sometimes have utilities (APC has PowerChute as an example) that will monitor the UPS and tell you how much/little your power is and the number of spikes and brown-outs.. those would be interesting stats to know.

Vin

i know nothing about em vinnie but i managed to snag this Dell unit

www.ebay.com.au/itm/272574489551?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[Vinster]

Mar 21, 2017 6:19:12 GMT -5 ozz said:

Mar 21, 2017 6:17:09 GMT -5 Vinster said:

depending on the brand of UPS, they sometimes have utilities (APC has PowerChute as an example) that will monitor the UPS and tell you how much/little your power is and the number of spikes and brown-outs.. those would be interesting stats to know.

Vin

i know nothing about em vinnie but i managed to snag this Dell unit

www.ebay.com.au/itm/272574489551?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Ah, there's a CD with the unit and a USB Cable. install the software from the CD. then plug in the UPS to your PC using the supplied USB cable. then in your taskbar you should have the UPS monitoring software in your taskbar.

From there you can monitor the power coming in. and also setup how your PC should behave if the power goes out (like do nothing, Shutdown immediately or shutdown once the UPS has 5min of batter left)...

If you don't install the supplied software, you can still have your PC shutdown on power loss, windows will install their driver for you and then it will be almost like a laptop with a battery indicator in the taskbar.

Vin

[ozz]

little bit out of my league vinnie lol, that will have to be a pete job  once i see how he does it ill know, the unit just arrived , its bloodwell 30kgs, its bigger than some pc cases , the seller wrote a note with it , its brand new, and it looks brand new too, not a bit of dust in it with all the cables, original Dell box, manuals , disc,  bar the main power lead but ive plenty of them, but has a panel dent and siezeable scratch where something fell on it or something, i dont care, wont affect it 1 bit, i asked the electrician how much power this thing will use and he said bugga all, well i dunno looking at its size weight id think it could be a power guzzler

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[Macsbeach98]

As long as the battery is charged it wont use much at all it will only be conditioning the incoming power before it gets to the power supply.

[ozz]

Mar 21, 2017 22:23:21 GMT -5 Macsbeach98 said:

As long as the battery is charged it wont use much at all it will only be conditioning the incoming power before it gets to the power supply.

ok thx pete, thats a plus then, but how does it " condition the power" of course it needs power to do it but how doesnt it use much power to do it

[Mr.Scott]

The only real power it actually uses is to run it's little display and crap like that. It's pretty much just a giant filter that your incoming power is passed through.
Probably only uses as much as an alarm clock.

[ozz]

Mar 22, 2017 17:50:57 GMT -5 Mr.Scott said:

The only real power it actually uses is to run it's little display and crap like that. It's pretty much just a giant filter that your incoming power is passed through.
Probably only uses as much as an alarm clock.

wow thats a big plus then scotty, it was on all day from when i got it yesterday and last night, batteries charged to 100% then i couldnt turn it off then worked out its the same as a pc to turn off, just hold the power button in, 1 press wont do it, it has to be held in to shut off but id suggest once the software is installed id hope youd be able to instruct the pc would shut it off

[Mr.Scott]

The software won't turn it off.
Realistically.....you don't turn it off...ever. It's not protecting anything if it's off. No battery backup either. You're supposed to just leave it on.

[ozz]

Mar 23, 2017 15:06:11 GMT -5 Mr.Scott said:

The software won't turn it off.
Realistically.....you don't turn it off...ever. It's not protecting anything if it's off. No battery backup either. You're supposed to just leave it on.

ah ok, so the batteries in it are purely for incase of a power loss it still has power to carry on to run everything

[Mr.Scott]

Mar 23, 2017 16:39:58 GMT -5 ozz said:

Mar 23, 2017 15:06:11 GMT -5 Mr.Scott said:

The software won't turn it off.
Realistically.....you don't turn it off...ever. It's not protecting anything if it's off. No battery backup either. You're supposed to just leave it on.

ah ok, so the batteries in it are purely for incase of a power loss it still has power to carry on to run everything

Correct. The battery won't last long if it gets used either. Maybe 10-15 minutes tops. Long enough to save any unsaved data and shut down.

[ozz]

i dont understand too much about this thing scotty but its on now and charging, it says battery 92% and run time 367 minutes, im aware the battery has 8% to full charge but the 367 mins runtime, i dunno what that means, at a guess its how long itll run without power before going flat

[Mr.Scott]

Correct again, but, that runtime will decrease when you put the load of a rig on it without power. You'll be able to watch it count down fairly rapidly.

[ozz]

Mar 23, 2017 18:47:54 GMT -5 Mr.Scott said:

Correct again, but, that runtime will decrease when you put the load of a rig on it without power. You'll be able to watch it count down fairly rapidly.

ok righto scotty thx, ill keep an eye on that

[ShrimpBrime]

Just a heads up, That UPS is not really that big. 1500VA is basically 1500w.

So you should be able to get 10 minutes from it with a 50% or less load on that PC. Basically it's built to keep the rig running so you can save your work and shut down safely.

I suggest you test the UPS. Pull the plug and run an idle test. See how long it goes before you get the low battery alarm. When you hear the alarm, shut the PC down quickly.

I do not suggest running an overclock and testing a full load on the PC. For that you want to spend 10x the amount of money and get between 3500-5000VA unit. Then you could actually finish your benchmark, stress test or game level ect.

HFGL

Edit: Sorry I skipped a bunch of posts. My bad. Ignore this one.

[ozz]

all good shrimpy, thanks to pete its all up and running no probs, am feeling a bit more safer now, didnt take him long to work things out(if all else fails, read the destructions lol)   with the bench unit running 3d03 or aquamark with the hd 3870 the ups is pulling about 450 watts it says

[ozz]

dunno if this UPS unit has anything to do with this but its been happening since we hooked it up, i thought it was a mouse battery or net connection but after the daily is running a while and say ive got 6 or more tabs open at once the daily just locks up, ive had a dozen tabs open at once b4 and no probs ever, they just stack up, then i gotta reset it and restart, 3 times now ive had to relogin in to everything with passwords etc, its drivin me up the bloody wall, i dunno where to look, im fearing its gunna end up corrupting W7 if i keep shutting it down without shutting it down properly and then itll be another reinstall with all the bullshit again that goes with it, relogins etc, any ideas

gotta be internet connection coz it just did it again as i was editing this, and locked up, i saw the net light on the modem playin up again, ive rung these pricks 3 times about this , now trying a ps2 mouse to see if it does the same to that when it locks up, it should i think coz the pc itself locks and seems to block everything from working

it just did it again with the ps2 mouse ,im just wondering whether it could be the motherboard battery is low doing this coz i just noticed that the clock stopped too, it was 4.24 pm on the pc and i looked at my phone and it was 4.37 pm, when i restart it the time re adjusts like it has now to the right time, i dunno

[Macsbeach98]

Tell me has it been shutting off like before or is this different?

[ozz]

Mar 26, 2017 15:57:50 GMT -5 Macsbeach98 said:

Tell me has it been shutting off like before or is this different?

no pete b4 it just used to shut off altogether, like a no power issue, this is just locks up, the mouse locks up regardless of where you are or what youre doing but can see where you were but cant do anything, so i hit reset to restart and its good for a while then does the same thing over, i pulled the pc plug from the unit and powered it thru the new power board and so far it hasnt locked up once since, im wondering whether theres a setting wrong somewhere