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welcome to my unboxing of the Thunder shield series uninterruptible power supply from op to UPS we in particular have the 2250 so this is the 1200 watt yes absorb that you guys 1200 why you P s from this particular line and what is it for okay emergency backup for home and office is offering it as perfection is the best value it actually isn't that expensive compared to their was they're durable series one that we looked at before so this is more for home and office use whereas the other one for suggested uses had things like medical equipment so that should give you some idea of the class of product this is more consumer and small business whereas the other one is more big business friendly the other one have advanced features like being able to hook up an external battery for you know hours of on time whereas this doesn't really have that kind of thing okay ideal solution for multiple applications PC and Mac workstations number gateways security surveillance and video recorders POS systems and ATM machines some stuff they can't go down but if it does go down people don't die okay ts series offers useful friendly installation in peace of mind operation okay wide range AVR automatic voltage regulator this is good because it will actually keep your parts lasting longer electrical noise filtration protection from electrical surges spikes and lightning remote control connected equipment and energy savings functions I advanced battery management okay all this is pretty straightforward let's go ahead and get this opened ups ups is our heavy this one is heavy I usually have trouble getting them out of the box we're probably gonna do is we're gonna turn off the camera I try and get it extracted so after we have a look at the packaging using a nice thick soft foam which is excellent and good to see especially because these things are so heavy that when you ship them around it would be a disaster if they you know broke the foam inside and like knocked around and destroyed themselves okay it comes with a nice big power cord and let's have a look at the other accessories really quick here comes with a USB cable so again this is another difference between that more commercial industrial model that came with a serial cable and didn't even work without an optional software download with USB like it was yeah it was meant for serial whereas this one doesn't even come with a serial cable is more consumer-oriented model it also comes with a phone cord oh yeah that's right well no not just I'm just making I'm just saying that it is useful the reason the phone cord is useful is because it actually will prevent power surges from frying your phone in theory power does actually go through the phone line so there you go alright ups monitoring software Sentinel revision v 1.5 works with any OS pretty much like ever on the Windows platform okay cool all right this one is also more consumer-friendly looking so it has actually oh yeah the other one the other ones here so instead of looking like a piece of equipment from the 80s I'm not gonna be able to move this so I'm just gonna kind of turn it there you go it looks like more like sleek you know the kind of thing that you can have next to your gaming rig that wouldn't look that out of place sort of sort of look to it okay so there's your power button there's your indicator LED this one doesn't have a front display however you can use the software to monitor a variety of the features here is a brief instructional guide on how to do a variety of things including how to turn it on which is critical if you can't figure out how to turn it on then you won't have much success using this product also unlike the industrial level product it doesn't have a cooling fan which again makes it more suitable for home use because let me tell you the cooling fan on the durable Series one is pretty loud more at place in a server room than in an office so here's our input here is our UPS output so you've got up to four things that you can plug in so you know there's your computer your monitor your I don't know fax machine and your you know like iPhone charger now you probably don't need to charge your iPhone doesn't matter if the power goes out your iPhone can just stop charging it's okay remember guys the point of a UPS is like lightening strikes or you know something explodes the power goes out something bad happens and there's some kind of a surge or some kind of damage that can be done to the equipment on the other side this guy takes care of that so as soon as something bad happens 8 it is keeping the voltages constant which is better on your equipment it is less stressful on the power supplies in your equipment whether it's a computer power supply or whether it's like a passive power supply doesn't matter it's less stressful to have a constant healthy voltage being fed to it and it also serves to switch to battery backup in the event that something goes terribly wrong which will keep things from shutting down without without correctly shutting down without closing or software saving all your work this kind of stuff can save your bacon so there's your USB port oh UPS output that's sort of interesting does it have fiber I'm not sure what the difference is between this UPS output in this UPS I would put it but there you go okay so rj45 slash RJ RJ 11 in and out so you can either power surge protect your Ethernet or your phone line but I don't really see any reason why you would want to surge protect Ethernet unless yeah I can't really think of a reason for that so the phone lines probably the more relevant one and I think that pretty much covers it don't forget guys lots of things can go wrong especially when the power goes out whether you're flashing a BIOS you know updating any particular firmware you should always be plugged into a UPS because it'll buy you at least a few minutes you know even five minutes can be the difference between finishing flashing a BIOS and just having one flake out and you slick and I even had the power go out here in the tech tips room when we were flashing a BIOS once and the only reason I don't know if that board's handy or anything the only reason that board didn't brick was because it had a dual BIOS feature that had a hardware switch we were able to just switch over to the other BIOS and flash that one once the power came back on so UPS's can save your bacon I'm a huge advocate and they are as valuable as they are heavy and they are very heavy thank you for checking out my unboxing the opti UPS 2250 be thunder shield series don't forget to subscribe to learn his tech tips from on boxing's reviews and other computer videos