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Vortex3 wrote:
Hi There,

Does anyone out there own one of these cheap UPS's like:

http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hard...quicklinx=2HQ2

These things seem to be absurdly cheap. I'd be interested in an opinion

It does look cheap, but I'm sure you can get a "branded" one for not
much more.

If you want cheaper:

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductsList.asp?Name=ups

Run time on almost all standard UPSs I've used over the years tends
to be about 15 miuntes under half load and it degenerates non-linearly
after that - down to about 5 minutes under full load.

Personally I don't buy anything from Dabs though - they don't have a
phone number to call them on if something goes wrong - you have to use
email, and in my last case, it was time-critical and they took 24 hours
to answer each email.

I was thinking of getting one to protect my PC's from the occasional
"brown-out" we get in very windy weather.

A second application would be use with a lead lamp when doing electrical
wiring at the fuseboard with all power off, in the half-light and with a
torch in your mouth!

Make sure it comes on with no power applied. Some of them don't!

Gordon