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CyberPower BL1450U Battery Back-UPS $109.99

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AmusedFruit500Today 05:31 AM
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Simulated Sine Wave
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SuperSaiyamanToday 06:01 AM
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Quote from AmusedFruit500 :
Simulated Sine Wave
This segment is always so confusing to me. Is a simulated sine wave UPS bad?
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Quote from SuperSaiyaman :
This segment is always so confusing to me. Is a simulated sine wave UPS bad?
In most cases, no, unless you have something extremely sensitive, such as medical equipment or certain analog audio equipment. In general, I just get the cheapest UPS with a brand I can trust to not catch fire. If they have a warranty for the protected equipment, that means that they stand behind the product. The quality of the surge suppression is generally much more important than the battery backup.

Sine wave is like you would expect, sin(x), smooth curves. Simulated sine wave is like a sine wave with a bunch of steps, and looks like a bunch of square waves stacked on top of each other. If you're pushing it through a power supply, it gets converted to DC anyway and doesn't really make a difference, and simulated sine wave is cheaper. Some power supplies may run a tiny bit hotter on battery, which impacts longevity, but with how often the power goes out for most people, it's insignificant.

The other thing you're looking for in a UPS is line interactive vs. online vs. standby. Standby has a relay with a switch over time, but it's just a few milliseconds. Again, the power supply will smooth it out. Standby is also cheaper. Online is basically AC to DC through the battery, back to AC, so if the power goes out, it is already using the battery, so there is zero cut-over time. Line interactive is a bit of a middle ground and is the most common type.

Apologies to anyone technical for some oversimplifications.
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vns1Today 08:57 AM
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CyberPower is a very decent brand and the price is good. Lately I prefer them over APC. They also use standard SLA batteries and are relatively easy and cheap to replace (including with LiFePo4 ones). If I didn't already have too many extra UPSes I would get this one.
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One reviewer mentions his unit has coil whine...anyone else experience this with similar models?

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