What are You Using for Your UPS?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:39:47 +0000

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If you’ve seen random clips from my live stream (such as outtakes) floating around YouTube, they were probably done by UncleJohn. Tonight in our GoToMeeting session, UncleJohn demonstrated muvee, which is what he uses to put these clips together for all of you. By the way, you can get a special trial just by following my link.

Do you hear that beautiful silence? The old background noise in my office is now gone. It was coming from a fan inside my UPS, and drove me crazy. I realized I needed something quieter, so went and found an excellent one! A UPS is used when you have machines that you just cannot afford to have go offline in the event of a power outage. Plug your computer and other devices into the UPS, and it will keep them running for you when your electricity is not.

The Back-UPS ES offers APC’s best value for protecting your home and home office computer systems. It provides battery backup power that allows you to work through short and medium length power outages. It also safeguards your equipment from damaging surges and spikes that travel along your utility and phone lines. Award-winning software automatically shuts down your computer system in the event of an extended power outage. Additional features like audible alarms, an LED status indicator, user replaceable battery, push-button circuit breakers and transformer-block spaced outlets make the Back-UPS ES the perfect unit to protect your productivity from the constant threat of power outages and lost data.

This has ten outlets in it, and it’s completely quiet. This is a new series from APC that is greener. Certain outlets will stop pushing electricity to devices that aren’t using it. It can save you money on your electric bill! We have a few of these UPS devices around the house, to help cut our energy costs with gadgets and appliances that we don’t necessarily use that often. I’m very appreciative that APC has thought of this, and are helping us to save money!

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Laptop Power Supply and Surge Protection

Chris Pirillo — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:02:22 +0000

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Recently, long time chatter CamBlack came to me for help with his mom’s laptop. I was able to hook them up with HP, who replaced the laptop for her. Now, Cam is wondering about whether or not a laptop needs a surge protector.

The bottom line is YES. If a laptop is plugged into the wall, it needs a surge protector. The power brick in the middle of your cord is not a surge protector, as many people think. That little black box is mainly to keep the laptop from overheating. It filters the electricity that is running through your power cord.

Anything plugged into a wall should have a surge protector… and not just those cheap $1.00 ones, either. The more you pay, the more protection you’ll get. What a surge protector does, basically, is to provide an interruption between the outlet and whatever may be plugged in to the surge protector.

To go one step further, a UPS (or Uninterruptable Power Supply) is an even better idea. This will provide surge protection, and also has a small battery. If the power should unexpectedly go out, the UPS battery will give you time to save your data and program states so you don’t lose any of your work.

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What are You Using for Your UPS?

Laptop Power Supply and Surge Protection