keep on crunching....

[ericlp]

Even during a Power Outage...

This seems like a pretty good deal on a Belkin UPS 1000Watt for 79 + a 15 MIR.

 

[Wiz]

in one place they say 100VA & in another place they say 1000VA then they say 550 watts...???

 

[ericlp]

Yup... That is correct 550Watts for 75 Mins. Not bad huh? Do you think your computer is using 550 Watts? Most computers even with a fan and hard drive spinning don't go over 100 watts. More then likely for a normal computer your using 70-80 watts. Anyway. If you didn't have a Hard Drive and only a CPU Fan and Mother with P/S & Fan it wouldn't be over 50 Watts so you could do 10 systems ... Tho you wouldn't want to turn all 10 300Watt P/S on at one time! 😉

Tho, you should be able to power at least 4-5 normal PC's with this unit. Just don't go plugging in monitors. Esp, 19-21" CRT's.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: ericlp
Yup... That is correct 550Watts for 75 Mins. Not bad huh? Do you think your computer is using 550 Watts? Most computers even with a fan and hard drive spinning don't go over 100 watts. More then likely for a normal computer your using 70-80 watts. Anyway. If you didn't have a Hard Drive and only a CPU Fan and Mother with P/S & Fan it wouldn't be over 50 Watts so you could do 10 systems ... Tho you wouldn't want to turn all 10 300Watt P/S on at one time! 😉

Tho, you should be able to power at least 4-5 normal PC's with this unit. Just don't go plugging in monitors. Esp, 19-21" CRT's.

A 1000va ups will power one current computer, for instance my XP2400 that's OCed a bit, and one 17" CRT monitor for 20-30 minutes, max. I have a 1400va, since I have a 19" CRT monitor. BTW, you can't have a computer without a hard-drive, unless you don't want to run an OS!

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: ericlp
Yup... That is correct 550Watts for 75 Mins. Not bad huh? Do you think your computer is using 550 Watts? Most computers even with a fan and hard drive spinning don't go over 100 watts. More then likely for a normal computer your using 70-80 watts. Anyway. If you didn't have a Hard Drive and only a CPU Fan and Mother with P/S & Fan it wouldn't be over 50 Watts so you could do 10 systems ... Tho you wouldn't want to turn all 10 300Watt P/S on at one time! 😉

Tho, you should be able to power at least 4-5 normal PC's with this unit. Just don't go plugging in monitors. Esp, 19-21" CRT's.

A 1000va ups will power one current computer, for instance my XP2400 that's OCed a bit, and one 17" CRT monitor for 20-30 minutes, max. I have a 1400va, since I have a 19" CRT monitor. BTW, you can't have a computer without a hard-drive, unless you don't want to run an OS!

You can use a floppy or NETBoot to boot an OS without a hard drive. There were a couple of SETI boot floppies around.

 

[RaySun2Be]

BTW, you can't have a computer without a hard-drive, unless you don't want to run an OS!

Not true. You can run Knoppix from CD without having a hard drive, there are floppy versions of OS around, so it is quite possible to run a comp without a HD. In fact, when RC5 was hot and heavy, a teammate created a boot floppy and many of us ran HD-less crack racks. 🙂

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be

BTW, you can't have a computer without a hard-drive, unless you don't want to run an OS!

Not true. You can run Knoppix from CD without having a hard drive, there are floppy versions of OS around, so it is quite possible to run a comp without a HD. In fact, when RC5 was hot and heavy, a teammate created a boot floppy and many of us ran HD-less crack racks. 🙂

Ray beat me to the knoppix, there are also many net appliances (wyse terminals) that don't have hard drives as well wal-mart uses them profusly with windows terminal services.(I know I've had to do repairs on the bugers)