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welcome to my unboxing of a product that now if you guys are consumers unless you are very high-end consumers this may not be in the realm of sort of what you would buy but if you're an SMB or if you are you know once again a very high-end consumer something like this might appeal to you so I've done a couple ups unboxings in the past on NCIX tech tips we have done an episode about what is a UPS what is what is the point however we're gonna cover a little bit of that again and we're going to cover a little bit of what makes this particular one special so this is a UPS from up gps you can see in this soft foam packaging how we're a fairly hard soft foam because these things are heavy they are serious business heavy because they have very very heavy batteries inside them that keep your computer running for minutes at a time in the event of a power outage so let's go through some of the accessories first before we get into a little bit more abut phone line so that'll prevent surges from affecting your phone serial cable in case you actually still want to manage your UPS to be a serial we've also got their Sentinel software included which is compatible with a wide variety of operating systems we have a user's guide for the durable series ds1000 1500 2000 and 3000 ok and let's go ahead and take this one out so the one we have here is the DS 1500 beat it is you know what really have you give me a sec guys so the DS 1500 beat can run for about five minutes on a full load assuming that you are actually pulling 1050 watts from it at the time that the power fails or whatever else so in the event that you have a very high-end gaming machine or something hooked up to it and you're actually doing something intensive you have video rendering in the background while you're playing a game you actually have a few minutes to close everything down and then you buy yourself a little bit more time in order to shut down the computer properly because when it's at a 50% low it can actually run for about 15 minutes about 14 minutes so I didn't mention before about 1500 bullpen is basically equivalent to 1050 watts so unless you have a really high-end computer this is pretty much gonna do it for you it's also a double conversion design which means that there is zero counter time during a power outages eliminating any possible downtime now let's have a look at the unit physically you can see on the back we've got two groups of outlets we've got a total of six outlets we've also got a 15 amp circuit breaker so in the event that you actually overload the unit itself although I'd imagine I mean I guess if you're doing a pure pasture you could actually pull more than 15 amps from about 15 amps would be more than the actual capacity that it's able to sustain off the battery itself so you wouldn't really want to overload it any more than that 1050 watts because you're not gonna get the benefit should the power actually fail which isn't to say that you don't get any benefit from it if it doesn't provide a battery backup because this particular unit will actually clean the power that is going through it and can dynamically switch between battery mode which would be on line mode and just a pass-through mode in order to make sure that if there's some kind of fluctuation for example if you guys know what a brown node is that's where the lights kind of flicker a little bit because the electricity in your house just goes a little bit wonky maybe someone turned on the microwave or the clothes dryer whatever the case may be this will completely protect the equipment that is connected to it by dynamically switching what mode it's in in order to make sure it's as clean as possible it also will correct the power going through it and is compatible because it is a pure sine-wave unit with any devices even power supplies that use active power factor correction which is pretty much any modern power supply you can see it has an LCD readout on the front as well as a couple limited buttons not a whole lot here just giving you indications of the major things that can go wrong with it it has a dynamically control pin so in theory you shouldn't get too loud although this is a serious piece of equipment and in general when you get past the consumer level stuff you know it tends to be not all that quiet this is mostly recommended for use on things like servers even medical equipment boats or like I said again very very high-end consumer stuff it also has an optional SM SNMP card available so you can do network and remote monitoring the U P of the UPS via web browser and check this emergency power out it's taped down so hopefully you won't accidentally hit it but this will actually bypass any of the set down procedures that the UPS has if you go ahead and pull it out we've got our serial port there remember it had a serial cable with it I definitely figure that for most modern systems you're gonna be using usb which isn't to say you won't use serial because there's a lot of stuff that does still use serial as well we've got our Ethernet in and out as well as I think that's pretty much it for the back so I was complaining it was heavy before just so you guys know it actually weighs about 40 pounds it has some other pretty cool features including managing the battery so it's at a 100% charge all the time as well as managing the battery in the event that it's running off of battery mode so if the power fails or it goes completely haywire in some kind of way that would damage your equipment it actually prevents the battery from going completely dead which can damage it now I want to clarify something I said before sorry I said online meant it was running off the battery no online refers to the instantaneous switching in the event that it does need to run off of the battery so sorry about that I think that pretty much covers everything that I wanted to say about this guy one of the things that we're actually going to be using it for on top of protecting our equipment here in the tectum slab is we're going to be using it to monitor power consumption when we do some of our videos where we're comparing the power consumption of various parts because the equipment that we've been using to measure it in the past has been pretty cheesy stuff like 15 bucks that sort of the local Walmart counting so we're gonna get away from that we're gonna start using this guy or one of its younger brothers depending on which lab we're working out of in order to measure the power consumption that we're drawing from the wall and the other effect that that will have is it will also clean the power it's delivering to the computer so it'll it'll protect us in the event of something like when we're flashing bios's and we corrupt a bios which we've had happen because the power went out while we were doing it like the freaked out fortunately the board had a bio switch so we managed to solve it to the board it'll protect us from that it will make our equipment last longer because we're delivering more stable power to it and it'll also give us better readings because the wall power can fluctuate which will actually when the voltages fluctuate it can actually affect the power consumption a little bit of the device is connected because there's some wonkiness involved in the conversion because this is going to clean it and provide exactly 120 volts output at all or 115 volts output at any given time we should also get more stable numbers especially when we're trying to do things like measure the idle power consumption or the low power consumption of a gaming machine so thank you for checking out this unboxing and don't forget subscribe Glenn's tickets for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos a couple things I forgot actually it has user replaceable battery there's an available extended battery and in additional to the available like extended battery you can also run an external battery so you can power the equipment that is plugged into it for hours at a time