UPS for Dual Band 12V 2.0 Router (Resonate vs Cuzor vs ...)

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So I need power backup for my Airtel router. It's one of those black, square 12V 2.0A dual band ones (Photos attached).
Requirement is uninterrupted supply during short. frequent power cuts - but won't mind 4h+ backup.

From googling, I heard Resonate and Cuzor are good. Amazon links below.
I am tending towards Resonate (4.2) even though Cuzor (4.5) has higher ratings because a lot of the reviews on Cuzor look like bot reviews.. And 8h seems 'too good to be true' at this price?
Suggestions? Anything else I should consider?

Resonate RouterUPS Gen2 3x2600mAH 12V 2.0A Upto 5h backup for 1.9k:

Cuzor Mini UPS Pro 3x2900mAH 12V 3.0A Upto 8h backup for 2.2k:
 

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axmac said:
So I need power backup for my Airtel router. It's one of those black, square 12V 2.0A dual band ones (Photos attached).
Requirement is uninterrupted supply during short. frequent power cuts - but won't mind 4h+ backup.

From googling, I heard Resonate and Cuzor are good. Amazon links below.
I am tending towards Resonate (4.2) even though Cuzor (4.5) has higher ratings because a lot of the reviews on Cuzor look like bot reviews.. And 8h seems 'too good to be true' at this price?
Suggestions? Anything else I should consider?

Resonate RouterUPS Gen2 3x2600mAH 12V 2.0A Upto 5h backup for 1.9k:

Cuzor Mini UPS Pro 3x2900mAH 12V 3.0A Upto 8h backup for 2.2k:
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used cuzor for 2 years worked fine gave 2.5 -3 hrs backup to my airtel router.
had resonate also but the biggest con with them was that they didnt support battery replacement program like cuzor.
 
These Router UPS are glorified powerbanks. They run on batteries all the time, like an online UPS. Their batteries degrade faster than computer UPS and inverters.

So, choose the company which provides battery pickup and drop at home, because batteres are going to be the sore point of these toys.

I found one desi company that used to make actual UPS that could switch power between mains and the battery. I don't remember its name though.
 
I had a chance to open up a oakter ups and the battery management system inside ensures very slow charging of the batteries to improve the lifetime. Unlike typical powerbanks where fast charging of the powerbank itself reduces battery life the oakter had a good bms. And oakter also has a battery replacement support at 699rs which is good I felt.
 
anmolbhard004 said:
used cuzor for 2 years worked fine gave 2.5 -3 hrs backup to my airtel router.
had resonate also but the biggest con with them was that they didnt support battery replacement program like cuzor.
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Got it - so I'll keep easy battery replacement as a priority.

chyawanprash said:
These Router UPS are glorified powerbanks. They run on batteries all the time, like an online UPS. Their batteries degrade faster than computer UPS and inverters.

So, choose the company which provides battery pickup and drop at home, because batteres are going to be the sore point of these toys.

I found one desi company that used to make actual UPS that could switch power between mains and the battery. I don't remember its name though.
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Makes sense - Ideally a power bank with pass through charging (Like say a Shargeek Storm 2) will do the job with less battery degradation, right?
So these devices don't have any pass through at this price I am guessing?

manohar5321 said:
I had a chance to open up a oakter ups and the battery management system inside ensures very slow charging of the batteries to improve the lifetime. Unlike typical powerbanks where fast charging of the powerbank itself reduces battery life the oakter had a good bms. And oakter also has a battery replacement support at 699rs which is good I felt.
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Thanks - will research about Oakter too.
 
Do you live in a house or an apartment building? Before buying anything I'd just check whether there's any airtel equipment outside your home that does not have backup. Like, in my building, airtel has building/compound level equipment which only has the society's genset as backup, no UPS. So even if i got a UPS for the router inside my home, I'd still have an outage for a few minutes every time the power is switched to genset.
 
calvin1719 said:
Do you live in a house or an apartment building? Before buying anything I'd just check whether there's any airtel equipment outside your home that does not have backup. Like, in my building, airtel has building/compound level equipment which only has the society's genset as backup, no UPS. So even if i got a UPS for the router inside my home, I'd still have an outage for a few minutes every time the power is switched to genset.
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It's a house (Typical 3 floor Delhi house). I have never faced this issue using inverters in the past in previous houses, so not sure if I should be worried about it?

Update -
Thanks everyone - I ordered the Cuzor Mini Pro one. Battery replacement policy seemed good to me, as that's the most likely point of failure of these power banks.
 
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I have jio fiber internet and I've been using Oakter mini ups since a month.
Once power went out for like half an hour and it worked fine. I didn't test the max duration it will work with the router though.
 
I used Oakter one. Had two ups and both of them degraded in performance after 2 year. Battery now lasts only 10mins and intermittent router restarts. I am using Airtel Xtreme. Planning to switch to Cuzor
 
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