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Looking to purchase UPS (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi All,

Apologies if this is in the wrong community.

I'm looking to get a UPS for my home server. It runs Homeassistant, Plex, and a few other things. I mainly need something to protect from power flickers/blips, and for it to allow a proper shutdown for prolonged power outages.

Here is the power useage on all my devices:

  • Server: 350w
  • NAS: 90w
  • Router: 42w

Any info on what to look for or which model to buy would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The two biggest things to look for other than capacity:

  • Line interactive versus standby. If you have a lot of over and under voltage events line-interactive is preferred. Standby will only kick in when power actually cuts.
  • Pure sine wave. I think power supplies are better about this now, but for some time PC power supplies only really worked on pure sine wave UPSs.

I bought the CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD in 2015 and its been rock solid. I replaced the batteries for the first time last year.

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