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From their Online Savings flyer for Costco Members dated 3/2/22-3/27/22 -- Please do not mark expired since it hasn't started.
Link from CyberPower for specifications:
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com.../cst1500s/
https://www.costco.com/cyberpower...27623.html
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I once had it run my cable modem when I lost power (only that) for about 4 hrs while I was on a laptop...
depending upon how want devices and their total wattage draw is what determines how long it will stay on. typically if you are drawing 1/2 of the maximum watts that the unit can handle is what is normally stated in the specs. so, if you just have a low wattage modem and router plugge into it then it might stay on for a couple of hours vs. if you have high end gaming system that is very high wattage (high end graphics card) then it might only stay on for a few minutes, just enough time to safely shut down by means of the software or manually.
never plug a laser printer or heater et. al. into a UPS else you are just asking for trouble... fire!
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The reviews say it lasts a more normal 40min - 4hrs.
What's going on here?
Product like this is NOT designed to LAST or to be USED without power. it's designed to kick in when power is lost (I own this one for 5+ years) to allow a safe shutdown of computers (to be able to save work) etc...
I once had it run my cable modem when I lost power (only that) for about 4 hrs while I was on a laptop...
depending upon how want devices and their total wattage draw is what determines how long it will stay on. typically if you are drawing 1/2 of the maximum watts that the unit can handle is what is normally stated in the specs. so, if you just have a low wattage modem and router plugge into it then it might stay on for a couple of hours vs. if you have high end gaming system that is very high wattage (high end graphics card[s]) then it might only stay on for a few minutes, just enough time to safely shut down by means of the software or manually.
never plug a laser printer or heater et. al. into a UPS else you are just asking for trouble... fire!
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As an anecdotal point of reference, one of these held up my networking equipment (cable modem, UI UDM Pro, POE switch and 3 APs) for about 40 minutes during last year's power outages in Texas. The same model held up a Mac Mini and 48" 4k display for long enough for me to power down other parts of my home lab gracefully and then power the Mac itself down (probably ~15 minutes as I shut down my NAS and Proxmox server and a bunch of NUCs). In total I have 6 of these on various machines and they did what the needed to, which was allow me to shut things down gracefully. During the next 5 days of rolling blackouts we used the power remaining in them to charge phones, tablets, and the kid's Switch. Between these things and Ryobi tool batteries we never ran out of power for our small electronics and I've been pleased with them overall.
The reviews say it lasts a more normal 40min - 4hrs.
What's going on here?
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depending upon how want devices and their total wattage draw is what determines how long it will stay on. typically if you are drawing 1/2 of the maximum watts that the unit can handle is what is normally stated in the specs. so, if you just have a low wattage modem and router plugge into it then it might stay on for a couple of hours vs. if you have high end gaming system that is very high wattage (high end graphics card[s]) then it might only stay on for a few minutes, just enough time to safely shut down by means of the software or manually.
never plug a laser printer or heater et. al. into a UPS else you are just asking for trouble... fire!
Yes I got mine from Office Depot or tiger direct last year for 116 I think. I use it for my fish tanks