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  • laptops dont need UPS's beacuse their battery is pretty much one

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  • I have my pc without a ups for about 6 years and it work's fine...even if I have a lot of problems with electricity

  • that's not true just wait 3 hours after there is a power cut with your computer and by 3 hours the term UPS is a lie.!!!

  • And remember to unplug the right cord! =)

  • A good UPS is cheap insurance for expensive parts.

  • wish I knew about this earlier, I've lost the use of two 2TB external hard drives due to power cuts :( stupid British gas +_+.

  • @1990banks someone who finds this useful.

  • Not only that but power is constantly surging (albeit small surges) when coming into buildings off the lines.

  • When he unpluged that PC I started laughing so hard !

  • linus SebaStain!

  • Would these bee sufficient enough to use for LCD TVs or for the living room?

  • lol linus at the end. ur so great!

  • They made a typo in Linus's last name at the beginning.

  • Could an EE tell me why go over the trouble of converting DC from a battery into AC just to converted back into back into DC via the PC power supply. Why not a way to by-pass the PC PSU, and provide DC directly? Maybe because of many different voltages a PC PSU generates for the PC?

  • i use a 750w power supply.should i get a 750w ups or higher/lower wattage ups?please answer.anyone.

  • If your using a 750w power supply, you can also buy a 850 watts UPS, but it is much better if your buy a 1500 watts ups for long backup time.

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  • Why does he still use vista?

  • @mrbeady9 because it doesn't suck. It's only because low end PC's can't really run it because of the ram issue. That's why windows 7 can even work for low end systems because the lowered the ram requirement for it.

  • @mrbeady9 The retail version of windows 7 was released on october 22, 2009. its ironic cuz this video was uploaded on the same day.

  • and you unplug your computer and... (That's not supossed to happen !)

  • He is the best

    

  • UPS are essential for third world countries with frequent power cuts

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  • @wiseirbis if it has passive PFC - you should get smart-UPS, but if it has ACTIVE PFC, then any UPS will do.

  • Considering most of stuff inside PC uses 12VDC, with UPS it's like 12V (UPS's battery) DC -> 110/230VAC (UPS's invertor) -> 12VDC (PC's PSU) :/

  • i was expecting you to talk about shipping

  • How to make your desktop into a very heavy laptop

  • @peterhejlejensen Attach a monitor and keyboard to it using duct tape.. duh!

  • lol. I love the mistake insertions at the end. He unplugged the computer from the UPS instead of the power source from the UPS.

  • Hey guys, i want to buy Corsair CMPSU-520HX 520W

    So, since it PFC, i have to use SMART-ups, right? Or anything will do? I mean, if power goes off, will my PC go down?

    I wasn't planing to buy smart-ups. It' costs more than my entire new PC. What should i do?

  • LOL thats awesome!! much respect for linus

  • a surge protector will not protect against lightning strikes. and if you read the warranty information. lightning strikes are not covered under the warranty.

  • @ ChiefLeftenant

    Agreeable! Do NOT buy a UPS for serge protection... Buy it for battery back up. Serge protection is a scam! Read the warranty people, it says "Warranty void under acts of God" and we all know that could mean anything. The only reason people actually get paid if they do lose something to lightning is because the dollar value for your 'thing' is less costly then taking your dumbass to court and WINNING. And they will win, I guarantee it.

  • a ups is the united states postal

  • @drKlitzman Thats USPS - United States Postal Service... UPS - United Parcel Service... Don't believe me Google it.

  • Did I hear CameraMan laugh?! I think I did!

  • The way he hit the UPS in the beginning was cruel, u can hear the UPS sqealing

  • haha xD the end made me LOL xDxD

  • Oh I need so much an UPS, Every month I change something in my computer because of power fluctuations... The bad part is when I lose a hard drive, lucky me that I have RAID... But I have a question: A UPS can work in combination with a power generator?

  • @bluesmoke21 Theory-wise, a UPS and a power generator could work together in that the UPS keeps the computer (and what else is plugged into it) running after a power-outage whilst the generator takes its time to start up and provide power.

  • @ElNeroDiablo Thanks for the answear.

  • @bluesmoke21

    If you are having these types of problems, like Linus' parents were having, I would contact your local power company and a licensed electrician or two and have them inspect the wiring of your house, and the line coming to the house from the power lines.

    It sounds like the wiring in both of these houses is faulty or otherwise insufficient, or there is not enough voltage/amperage available to support the devices you have plugged in.

  • @FHCTech Yeah, thanks for the advice! It's not just me... is the entire neighborhood with this problems. We have Enel around here. And Enel is a biiig fucking corporation, that doesn't care about their customers. I'm looking for alternative enegry sources anyway. So fuck Enel. :))

  • I will 100% buy God dam UPS!XD

  • you should do some unboxing and reviews of some UPS. :D

  • lol @ bloopers

  • hmmm I live in California near San Francisco and I don't remember the last time that the power was out but I'm thinking about getting this

  • haha the end was hilerious didnt work haha lol

  • es muy bueno todo pero mi sugerensia es que lo pasara a español ppara que tu biera mas bentas

  • wait. linus lives with his parents? LOL

  • @Killer101Noob He probably does but I don't think he even said that o_O

  • XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

  • UPS (united postal service)

  • i dont have a UPS but i do have a line conditioner that protects my computer from my window air conditioner which sends a big spike through my rooms wiring every time it kicks on and i can actually hear the line conditioner correct the voltage. it has also been protecting my computer from the other window unit, our big 240v 80 gallon shop air compressor, lightning, and just the lights flickering at random. in the middle of a storm once, lightning stuck and knocked out everything but my comp

  • lmao good out-take

  • I have a pc like this: phenom ii 920 gigabyte ga-ma74gm-s2 ati 5850 2gb & 4 gig ocz 

    what kind of psu i need to get? thanks

  • Will this unit bring things to my hone and charge the shit out of me?

  • HAHA the ending was funny. XD lol

  • Linus got it all wrong too. You guys are stupid. UPS is United Parcel Service. Which shipped him the power supply thingy that he did this Tech Tip on.

  • @BeAnBeAn22 Hahahahaha

  • lol the end "and that did not work..." "because what im supposed to.." whatwere u supposed to do Linus?

  • APC ups es 700 is amazing

    and works

    best wishes

    mr pecker deker

  • the UPS also shipp my pc to my home

  • Ups's are great, I have 4 of them so far (1 x 350 va, and 3 x 750 va). The ones I use to backup my desktop are modded to run off of a 12 volt deep cycle marine battery (125 amp hour vs the stock 3.4 - 9 amp hour batteries). The only bad thing about ups's is they are not very efficient on battery, so I will only get up to 7 hours of battery life with my modded system. It's still a lot better than the 1 min max I got with stock batteries. Realistically in an emergency I would not run the pc long.

  • ask Pakistanis what is UPS ..25% houses have UPS since 2years an 100% people know what is UPS...cuz there is loadshedding of electricity...ha ha

  • Fail at the end xD ...

  • LMFAO AT END

  • loool at the end x)))

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  • lmao @ the ending.

  • what about a good PSU... as i know most of them have surge protection...so the point of having UPS is if u need clean power and some extra time to save and shutdown your PC...btw good UPS should be HEAVY! :D

  • cool video. i have a belkin pf40 power console (264,000 amps and 7700 joules protection). 10 power sockets, aerial, cable tv, satellite and ethernet protection. ;)

  • hahaha @ 3:30

  • what camera do they use

  • lmao@the end

  • lol no wonder...he unplugged his PC FROM the UPS...when he shouldve unplugged the UPS from the wall socket

    /fail but i /respect the guy

  • that wasnt the PC.

  • hhaaha ROFL finish

  • @TheTruthSg fail? sorry bud but you just failed with that comment... because he did unplugged the UPS from the power board....

  • @tiBbLeX Hey man, did you watch the video until it ended?

  • Great point about protecting against dirty power.

    I've found another use for a small UPS - hot water heater. I've switched to an inline tankless natural gas heater, and with the electronics involved, no power means no hot water. With a $40 UPS it will last over a day without power.

    Nice outtake at the end, don't you just hate seeing "signal not found" and realizing that was the WRONG power cord unplugged. :)

  • $40? Where'd you find that?

  • Took advantage of a very bad mispricing by Staples on a $90 UPS.

  • Nice. But it's not for me. I live in a flat with no such problems. I understand that in a family-house this product is very important. My message is: to upgrade from Vista to Nr 7 = tooooo much money! In Sweden anyway.

  • Your an idiot..

    My $200 UPS has saved my $3000 dollar system more than handful of times.

  • you are horridly wrong. your the IDIOT.

    this is an Uninteruptable Power Supply, no home electrical system in the world has a big battery sitting at the main switch you fucking idiot, and i myself have a $180 surge protector protecting my 3 computers near my feet and infront of me as i want to make sure a surge wont kill my $6500 of hardware that i use

  • UPSs not only protect the system from power outages, it also helps to filter the power coming in. Unless you have an alternate power source (which is basically a UPS for the whole house) then you really should have one.

    UPSs also have better surge protectors than just the regular surge protectors (usually).

  • The end was epic.

  • @Kentech0023 LOL it was he unplugged the computer instead of the UPS xD

  • haha u took out the wrong power cable in the blooper XD, almost happened to me ;p

    in the year im using an ups i've only noticed a brown?? w/e once.( noticed that the light flickered)

    so except from that its been almost useless here, cuz right after i bought it the powerlines or how to call them were pretty stable.

    furthermore they come with a heavy price and the best i could afford came from "Trust" which in most cases isn't to be trusted, its working but i dun like the noise..

  • I don't get powercuts but I do get rather large overvoltage. I never knew until I bought a ups for my WHS and noticed it going on to battery at least 2-3 times a week! Well worth the money.

  • I've never had spikes and surges...

  • You mean "What is a UPS?"

  • pretty cool stuff

  • I don´t know if it´s tru but I heard that the electrical grid in USA is quite bad and that´s why you get that voltage "inregulation" among some other things.

    That´s just what I heard. I do´nt live in USA myself.

    Where I live (Sweden) it´s usually only companies that need a UPS and that´s basicly only if there would be a "power blackout", which is pretty rare in Sweden.

    The past year there has only been 2 "power blackouts" where I live.

  • your likey my counry has one every three days

  • You don't need one in Canada or USA. I have never had problems with brownouts or voltage spikes, and never heard anyone else with problems.

  • Yeah, you probably live in the city though, it's an entirely different story in the country or especially on an island, I live in BC on a small island and the power goes out like once every two weeks in the winter. The most it was out for here was for 6 days...kind of exciting lol.

  • Oh man, I think I would like that. It would give me a good excuse to build a whole alternate power source of solar and wind and make a big battery backup system. That would be awesome.

  • Heheh, yeah but that can get pretty damn expensive. But oh well I actually like power outages...gives you a break from things like work, tv, computer...you know.

  • Alternate power systems use batteries to give a constant flow when the sources aren't producing. Its essentially a UPS for the whole house.

  • think he plugged out the wrong cable. the cable from ups to the psu.

  • lol at the blooper

  • what happened with the blooper? why did it turn off?

  • he unplugged the computer from the UPS instead of the UPS From the wall

  • LOL! Nice little blooper! 5/5

  • that's a bad-ass UPS & yes more people should be buying them !

    Most often people buy those cheap power strips that call themselves 'surge protectors' when in fact their joule rating is so low that it wouldn't protect them against a decent spike.

    Then they wonder why their power supply went bad or their motherboard got fried !?

  • LOL @ BLOOPER

  • Lawl @ the blooper.

  • Hm, didn't know what a UPS was. LOL at the blooper; pulled out the video cable.

  • If you need a ups, you really need to check the electrics on your house.

  • lol i thought he ment ups the delivery company

  • same here :D

  • lol a brown out sound sexual... sorry if I'm being immature ^^

  • hahahaha omg i was thinking the same

  • great minds think alike :D

  • my ups was necessary in my old appartment cause it had serious power issues and killed like 2 motherboards. once i added the ups i haven't had any problems with my computer.

  • not needed. This a complete load of useless crap, which is a 100% waste of money

  • not a compete waste, but i don't see myself running out to get one any time soon (I have good wiring in my house)

  • (Note: read this in a comical manner)

    Well I guess you never had 25 (yes 25 is not an exaggeration) stray cats around your house that get into the attic then chew and urinate upon the wiring!!! Just remember never let anyone in your family start feeding a stray cat, neeevvvveerrr!!! I hate cats now, I mean I really hat cats!!! I can tell you honestly that I had trouble sleeping because they would have cat orgys up there, man!!!

  • well I wouldn't say that... power goes out here from time to time, especially during the winter :( power lines kind of suck... it can be annoying to have no warning

  • a UPS*

    WOW, FAIL NCIX.

  • how much for this unit?

  • google is too hard for you ?

  • what's wrong with asking the price? if people know they generally have it and will then say about it

  • love the huge mic on your shirt linus lol

  • I would have to say practically useless, unless you live in a third world country like india or pakistan, there the power goes down on a daily basis and for many hours..

  • Lolz @ blooper

    And i wonder about this:

    How do you maintain the battery? Do you have to discharge it completely once in a while? and if yes, how?

  • No. Just leave it plugged in. It maintains itself Batteries should last for a few years like any little used Lead Acid batteries

  • I also thought you were talking about the company that legally steals people's money.

  • hahaha, your funny :D

  • i though it was U.S parcel service

  • LOL fail at the end of the video

  • lol dirty powa ... get real wiring 1st world nation my ass

  • it is if u live in a place where there's voltage fluctuation every now and then just like his mom's place and my friends place.

  • If your hardware in the computer was failing at such a rapid pace like that, I think you have other problems...it shouldn't be happening.

  • now thats a mic!!!!

  • I think a ups is more for business than for gaming.

  • wow dirty power.....sounds so dirty

  • UPS are waste of money,,,but nice to have

  • waste of money???

  • lamo at ending... good info for those who don't know :)

  • UPS = United Parcel Services

  • UPS = Uninterpretable power supply

  • was going 2 say that lulz...

  • is this a big problem in US?

  • Not a big problem, but shit happens, in Europe we have underground cabling and crazy German technology so its very low % of needing this.

  • i live in holland :)

  • My UPS battery died about 2 years ago... I have yet to buy one. The price on the high-end ones is quite a lot. My area doesn't get a lot of power issues, but I need to get one again.

  • i already have a u.p.s for my computer. its brilliant. i have no more crashes

  • Lol fail at the end. =D

    Nice tip btw.

  • LMAO yeah, he unplugged the Flat Screen from the UPS instead of unplugging the UPS itself from the Surge Protector. Funny Ending, 5 STARS

  • Actually he unplugged the computer. You will notice that the display shows that there is no signal. :)

  • i want one!

  • Nice! most interesting.

  • Surge protected psu's? wow, thanks for the info!

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