UPS help.

[Fasade]

Hello, I want to buy a UPS and know nothing about them.

I have sometimes power outages for 1 or 2 seconds and that messes things up, I need it to do it's work for about 4-5 minutes just to be sure.

 

I plan to have on it a router, an AOC CQ32G1 monitor and the PC (750W psu, Ryzen 3600, RTX 2600 super).

What kind of VA would I need for that ?

[Slayerking92]

APC has a calculator.

 

https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/tools/ups_selector/

 

But for just a few minutes of runtime, any 500+ should do/

[joser1813]

On 9/27/2019 at 2:41 PM, Slayerking92 said:

APC has a calculator.

 

https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/tools/ups_selector/

 

But for just a few minutes of runtime, any 500+ should do/

This calculator seems pretty useless. They recommend a 1500VA unit for a 500W estimated load... 

 

On 9/27/2019 at 9:58 AM, Fasade said:

Hello, I want to buy a UPS and know nothing about them.

I have sometimes power outages for 1 or 2 seconds and that messes things up, I need it to do it's work for about 4-5 minutes just to be sure.

 

I plan to have on it a router, an AOC CQ32G1 monitor and the PC (750W psu, Ryzen 3600, RTX 2600 super).

What kind of VA would I need for that ?

I'm in the same situation as you. However, you could have a 750W PSU but it doesn't mean that's the power consumption, that's determined by the components. I have a 500W PSU for my PC but the estimated load is 352W.