My experience with UPSes (mostly APC) is that initial battery works fine, say 45 minutes. If battery backup reduces a lot, get battery replaced - should be about Rs 1500-2500 for this size, battery backup increases a lot but much below the 45 minutes we were getting earlier : say around 30-35 minutes. Official APC service is just slightly more expensive, and same results as far as I observed.Is that APC 1100 VA UPS?
How much battery backup do you get?
It used to give me about 30mins battery backup when not gaming but these days starts beeping in just 5mins
I never had much luck with any UPS I bought so far
Post your Rigs !
- Thread starter Darklord
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Setup goals! Could you link to the clock?
raf1988
Contributor
Thanks man, it’s called the “Divoom TimeBox”. Available on Amazon and Flipkart, I got it 4 years back for 5400₹, now it’s still available for around 3600₹.
Also, there are newer / alternate models available, besides this they’re releasing a bigger model, picture frame sized version. You can do a lot of cool things with this, Static and Animated PixelArt displays, bluetooth, aux, radio, has a speaker, weather, temperature and when connected to the phone you get the WhatsApp/Facebook/IG logos flash display on the screen. All these fancy features but I only use it to display the clock lol.
karamvirk47
Contributor
It was bought in Jan 2020
bssunilreddy
Journeyman
Man
You should post your setup in Reddit show case in subreddit by name PC setups
This is the best setup in the whole of this forum
karamvirk47
Contributor
well mine has managed to reduce to just 10 mins in just 1 year. I have bought 3 UPS in last 10 years and experience has been horrible with all of them.
Though this one gives me enough time to wait 5 mins to see if power comes back and turn off my pc properly if not which is helpful at least
Another thing I have noticed is that even if battery drains completely it finishes charging in just about 30 mins, don't remember how it was earlier but manual says 6hrs for full charge
Oh then it is too soon to need a new battery. You could be overloading it - can you send all the devices you have connected to it ? Components of PC, and other devices. You would know approximate power consumption of those devices, or others here might help. If you are overloading it, you may face such problems.
If load is high, and you cannot upgrade your UPS, keep only important stuff connected to UPS battery backup port. Connect sensitive electronics like monitor, speaker etc. to surge protection port of UPS. And connect other stuff like chargers etc. directly to mains bypassing UPS.
karamvirk47
Contributor
No load is definitely not above because it starts beeping when that happens
dexterz
Graduate
if backup duration is the issue its most probably the batteries needing a replacement. Happened with my APC 600Va. If its case of overload, the PC would restart/crash on power failure.
raf1988
Contributor
Thanks! I have posted there like a couple of times 1-2 years ago. Now that sub has over 100k Redditor’s, any post will instantly get attacked upon or something like that. The sub is dominated by teenagers and irritating people of-lately. Let’s see, may post after I get some new setup photos clicked.
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combatknife
Contributor
is this some sort studio setup for youtube? simply amazing
raf1988
Contributor
Nope, don’t have any YouTube channel, yet! Just my home setup, been in the works for years! Thanks!
karamvirk47
Contributor
ok thanks for the info, it's probably because of batteries then
nice setup bro
monitor model
magesh85
Forerunner
Acer Monitor This is what i got bro. I got it a year back..
frost50
Contributor
yup, it looks good.
cellar_door
Forerunner
Here is where I work and play. GPU upgrade's been due for over a year now but not much you can do in this climate.
tomclancy1201
Contributor
Not a final look. Posting as i am mainly looking for suggestions , cant seem to decide a theme hence have not got fans or custom cables
Specs:
CPU :AMD 5800x
GPU : Asus RTX 3090 EKWB
RAM :2x16 GB Gskill 3200MHz
Mobo :Strix X570-E
Please ignore the random pendrive inside the case.
Specs:
CPU :AMD 5800x
GPU : Asus RTX 3090 EKWB
RAM :2x16 GB Gskill 3200MHz
Mobo :Strix X570-E
Please ignore the random pendrive inside the case.
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