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Old 05-05-2014, 06:56 AM
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I would love to know more about your UPS units. Mine will only power the computer for a few minutes.
Wow, that doesn't seem right. Are they very old? We have two of the models I linked, one for the TV and satellite receiver and the other for the router. We've never run them completely down, but the display estimates how long you have left and they start at 2.5 to 3 hours. We've only had two outages that I remember, but I guess we did unplug the laptops and let them run on their own batteries.

I mostly like that they kick in for those transient outage blips that would otherwise cause the satellite receiver to restart. Heaven forbid The Good Wife is recording and we lose 5 minutes in the middle of a trial.