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hey everyone this is Jimmy with Jim's review room now I edit a lot of video throughout the day as you can imagine and my video editor Adobe Premiere saves my work automatically every 10 minutes like many other programs like Microsoft Word and whatnot and indeed you can change the autosave feature to save in every five minutes or every 15 minutes it's really up to you but within my personal 10 minutes I could have made crucial fine adjustments to my work and if the power goes out I don't recall those exact changes of course and all is lost so that's where these UPS systems comes in handy and I provides uninterrupted power through a charged battery in addition offering surge suppression as well and I know for some people they rarely - never lose power in their home but I'll mitt it really does come in handy in those unsuspecting moments now I personally bought mine for $169 and now go into these specifics on why I chose this particular model as this will for sure help you pick the right one - not all UPS systems are created the same so without further ado welcome guys to jim's review room I'll try not to be too technical here as my channel does focus on the average consumer but I was very close to buying an APC branded system in this price range when the power goes out APC offers a certain type of power output from the battery in their lower end and even their pearl models called step approximated sine wave typically less expensive consumer UPS systems produce simulated sine wave outputs that steps up and down rather than having a smooth sine wave output now what the CyberPower model I have here produces is a pure sine wave with power factor correction now that's a lot of jargon there but what this all means to you is with new and modern-day PCs they're using much more efficient power supply units in their computers and then use again power factor Corrections and if the back of battery does not support this you may encounter humming or buzzing noises from the computer or a worst case scenario the battery won't be able to keep your computer on when it switches over to battery mode now I have seen in cases here where the UPS system cycles down and restart itself causing your computer to turn off altogether and I'm not targeting a PC but many other backup solutions offers the steps sine wave as well so just be careful when you're on the market looking now all right here so enough with electrical engineering 101 looking at my units and finally rotating to the rear here you can see just like most UPS systems there's battery and surge protection outlets and the left here and only surge protection on the right 10 outlets in total with coaxial and phone ports being protected and the USB in serial connections our communication ports to work with the supplied software now these ports are not meant for your printer and such and now returning to the front again and scrolling through the on-screen information first to be displayed is the voltage coming in from your wall which is this standard 120 volts here in the United States now as a side note this does not take in 220 or 240 volts as seen in some other countries overseas next is what the voltage output powering your devices are which should be the same and after that is the frequency now moving on to the following screen details the total wattage consumed in real time by all of your devices connected and as you can see on screen I'm drawing about 200 watts on a normal basis with 300 watts when the computer is under load now think of this as a wattage meter which comes in handy to determine if you're drawing too much power or not now my specific cyber power model produces 810 watts of power which is more than what my computer generates under maximum load and not to mention I have not one but two monitors a cell phone any lamp connected to this backup power supply to give you an idea of my power consumption now the next piece of information displayed are the actual voltage amps and its percentages to follow on the next screen now the last three here are critical the unit informs how much battery we have left on the system and of course mine is fully charged at 100% next is how many minutes I have left before the battery dies while I'm running my current setup and for me 20 minutes seems appropriate to save my work close out any and all documents here and shut down my computer properly and last how many events have occurred with this unit and just to finish the front panel here there are two USB ports rated at 1 amps each enough to power your smart phones at a normal rate for tablets and more demanding devices they'll still charge normally but it may take a little bit longer to do so two amps would have been better suited and after receiving a response from my email to CyberPower they disclose the two USB ports in the front are only charging ports they're not protected and just for testing and demonstration purposes here's my computer at full load and yanking the power cord from the wall and you'll hear that audible alarm each time you lose power and the alarm can be silenced at your choosing and I'm sure that you saw my lamp did turn off because it's plugged into the surge protection side only now and a battery backup side on the back of the UPS but as you can see the computer and the monitor didn't even flinch or make any changes from traditional wall power to battery power I'm very impressed by that now the only thing that I saw changed was the timer on the UPS before the power interruption it was calculated at 20 minutes as you seen earlier in the video now as soon as I lost power it dropped to about 15 or 16 minutes worth of juice not detrimental but something that you be aware about no one on battery mode there's a very minuttes very small fan that kicks on just to keep things running cool and it's not loud at all and from my testing the unit never became hot or unsafe in my opinion now everything performed as it should nothing went wrong with my computer which is my biggest investment here and it did what it performed or advertised to do now the only gripe that dropped to fifteen or sixteen minutes here from twenty minutes was a slight shock but I'm glad I tested this and now I know what my quote-unquote window time is and I wish the USB ports on the front were a bit more powerful for the tablets and such and did also provide protection as well and the biggest gripe I have here is the power cord is only five feet from the back it's too short from my personal needs but a PC comes with a 6 foot cord which isn't too much of a difference but at the end of the day everything mentioned are really not issues or anything wrong with the device but more wants for a future product so hope this video helped you in some way if you like my work add me gyms review room answer Facebook Twitter Instagram or Google+ as I normally post updates on items I'm currently testing before I put them on the website again this is Jimmy wood Jim's review room you guys take care and I'll see you on the next one bye you