Is my UPS bad?

qboIodp · September 5, 2022

I currently have a ups (1200va) and I used to have plugged in a gaming pc (2nd gen i7, 1060 6gb,700W 80+) and a gaming monitor and it used to stay for around 10 minutes on before It would turn off. About a year ago I bought an entire new pc but I kept the gpu and it worked just fine. A couple months back I finally upgraded to a 3070 Ti and since then I thought that there was no problem till now. Yesterday my building had a power drop for just 2 seconds and Everything went black instantly. Today I proceeded to test it by turning off the power strip (on which the ups is connected) while the pc was idle and nothing happened, when I moved the mouse it happened again. What did go wrong?

My monitor is 79W and I have an 850W Platinum be quiet psu.

qboIodp · September 5, 2022

27 minutes ago, Caroline said:

What UPS? There's a lot of 1200VA units out there, some are crap some are not.

It's a 110€ from a greek company plaisio.

qboIodp · September 6, 2022

17 hours ago, Caroline said:

I don't know any Greek but the only one I was able to find near that price was this

https://www.plaisio.gr/anavathmisi-diktia/ilektrologika-ergaleia/ups/turbo-x-ups-1200-va-line-interactive-ea2100-1200va-720w_2725959

As far as I can tell it's a China rebrand meaning the quality isn't what we'd call great, depending on the age the battery could be on its way out already, these don't come with high end batteries, hence the price difference. Or the inverter can't keep up with the load even at idle.

When it comes to UPS it's recommended they're plugged directly into the wall socket and not a power strip, AVR, etc. Try that, if nothing changes then it can't keep up with your new PC.

Idk, I bought it almost 2 years ago and it since has been working fine. I tried plugging it directly through the wall and still when I move my cursor almost immediately it shuts down.