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Old 07-27-2009, 01:24 PM   #8
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I think the UPS you have Vulcan is a 500VA one, not quite the same as 500W (http://www.dansdata.com/gz028.htm)

If you are getting frequent brown/blackouts, a whole house surge protector will help but won't be everything.

http://www.hgtvpro.com/hpro/np_produ...484609,00.html

Maybe whole house surge suppression combined with a UPS on expensive stuff like home theater and computer?

I've got a 1500VA UPS for my office and a 500VA one in my basement for my router, modem, and NAS.
No, I guess it's 540 watts and it says it's 900VA on the case. Anyways I'm glad I got it, though it may be overkill for my computer. Right now the computer is running at about 50-60% load and it's only drawing 16% or 86 watts from the UPS. It's a dual core e6750 with two video cards and two HDDs with a 22' monitor.

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=171926

Last edited by Vulcan; 07-27-2009 at 01:36 PM.
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