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greyhaven
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Forgive me if this is in the wrong area, I couldn't find an exact thread about UPS.

 

I had a question concerning a UPS. I just bought one because I live in Thailand which is notorious for blackouts, brownouts, you name it. I have a PS5 with a Firecuda and heatsink and do NOT want to fry my PS5 to being beyond useable because of these blasted blackouts that happen for several minutes, flash brownouts that cut the power for a split second and comes right back on (these happen a LOT here and HATE HATE HATE it!!!! GRRRRRR!!!)

 

The one I bought was a Zircon SMI 2000VA/1200W UPS. I am not THAT big of a techie, although I do know some stuff, but power and wattage and all that, I am not that well schooled. Will this 2000VA/1200W be enough for having a Samsung 55" 4K TV and my PS5 plugged in? Or did I spend quite a wad on something I didn't need too much of? I want to be able to have enough time to turn off my PS5 before the UPS cuts out and I bought the thing for nought.

 

Any answers are greatly appreciated. Just please, treat me like I'm Michael Scott and I need things explained to me as though I were five. LOL 🙂

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23 minutes ago, greyhaven said:

Forgive me if this is in the wrong area, I couldn't find an exact thread about UPS.

 

I had a question concerning a UPS. I just bought one because I live in Thailand which is notorious for blackouts, brownouts, you name it. I have a PS5 with a Firecuda and heatsink and do NOT want to fry my PS5 to being beyond useable because of these blasted blackouts that happen for several minutes, flash brownouts that cut the power for a split second and comes right back on (these happen a LOT here and HATE HATE HATE it!!!! GRRRRRR!!!)

 

The one I bought was a Zircon SMI 2000VA/1200W UPS. I am not THAT big of a techie, although I do know some stuff, but power and wattage and all that, I am not that well schooled. Will this 2000VA/1200W be enough for having a Samsung 55" 4K TV and my PS5 plugged in? Or did I spend quite a wad on something I didn't need too much of? I want to be able to have enough time to turn off my PS5 before the UPS cuts out and I bought the thing for nought.

 

Any answers are greatly appreciated. Just please, treat me like I'm Michael Scott and I need things explained to me as though I were five. LOL 🙂

It looks like you have a model with an energy capacity of 2000Wh. That means that if we take 200W for the TV and 250W for the PS5(I don't know how much it consumes exactly but that's a close estimate), you can run them for like 4-5h before the batteries of the UPS are empty. So you have quite a big one. But at least like that you can still play on like nothing happened and not even notice that the power went out

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The TV probably draws around 80W and the PS5 is rated at 350W but it usually draws 200ish when gaming. Add 20W for the router. And you're at 300W under load.

1200W is 4 times that. So you'll have 3-4 times the time the UPS is rated at. 

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Thank you both for your replies. This helped me tremendously. I really appreciate it. I'm looking forward to putting this UPS to good use once I get it. I am be relieved now that my PS5 will no longer be in danger of another power outage. The small ones, that go out and come on quickly, are the ones that happen more frequently here. 

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I don't think power outages will destroy the PS5 on its own, it may ruin the data stored on the SSD but I don't see any reason to cause hardware failure.

The under/overvoltage that sometimes accompany power outages may be a factor. Maybe looking into UPS/extension cords with surge protection?

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