This is what you get from a wall outlet, an inverter generator and a lithium ion powerblock. Your electronics want to run off of a power source with a pure sine wave delivery. The CyberPower is designed to do the one of the damaging events it is supposed to protect against! Simulated Sine Wave Power This feature is designed to intentionally crash your electronics, instead of switching over to unprotected AC power from the wall outlet, as soon as there is anything wrong with the unit. In reality what this means is that when the CyberPower unit is faulty or has a little glitch it immediately kills power to your connected computer and causes it to have an uncontrolled crash. This is a subtle but important feature that infuriated many customers.Īccording to CyberPower Safe Fail is a feature that cuts power to connected equipment when the surge protector can no longer provide protection – keeping your electronics safe. This device seems like it isn’t quite beefy enough to protect the stuff that I want to protect. However you want at least 2,000 joules of protection for items like: This unit offers 1,500 joules of surge protection and, to be honest, I had no idea what that really meant until I started to research this product.Īccording to the folks at Rockwall Electric, 1,500 joules is fine for protecting items such as: There are three design issues that I consider deal killers. The TL:DR version is that this thing is fine for protecting cheap stuff but I would not trust it to protect anything really important. So, if you are using this to prevent your electronics taking a hard crash during a power outage then make sure you have them plugged into the outlets with battery protection. The front of the unit has an LCD display that lets you know the status/capacity of the unit.Īll of the ten 120V outlets are surge protected but only five of them are connected to the battery backup. This unit has 10 outlets offering 120V AC power, USB ports and inlet/outlet connections for a coaxial cable. There is a slightly larger one available from Costco’s website (1500 VA) that has the same feature with a slightly larger battery. The Battery Backup that is in my local Costco warehouse is the version with 1350VA (815 watts). Key Features of the CyberPower Battery Backup at Costco Estimated run times for other devices are shown below. For example, this unit has enough juice to run your laptop for about three hours. The ideal scenario is that if you have a power outage at your home then the Battery Backup will kick in and give you an hour or so to shut down your computer instead of having it do an uncontrolled crash.Īnother attractive benefit of the Battery Backup is that since it is a large battery you can use it during a power outage to power a few devices for a short period of time. You want an Uninterruptible Power Supply to serve as a short term source of power to let you shut down your computer in a controlled manner. Unregulated power spikes are quite common, especially in older homes, and will fry your electronics. You want to use a Surge Protector to protect your TV, computers and other electronic devices from sudden power spikes. The CyberPower unit is two products in one as it is both a Surge Protector and an Uninterruptible Power Supply. 4 Costco Bargain Why You Need a Battery Backup
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