Another is riding out brief power blips seamlessly, so that you don't reboot from a brief power loss at the wall outlet. That's one useful capability of a consumer UPS. Then that is exactly what will happen: whether or not you are in front of the computer, PowerChute will force your computer to hibernate, thus saving the exact state it was in before all power in the emergency battery is lost. (2) You configured PowerChute to send your computer into Hibernation mode when the APC battery began to lose too much charge (or after a certain amount of time on battery charge) (1) The wall outlet is out and your computer is running off the APC's emergency battery power
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This is why it's called an uninterruptable power supply, because it's providing smooth, emergency power when the main power supply jitters or goes down.įurther, you can install an APC software utility on your computer called PowerChute: it allows you to configure how the APC unit maintains its charge and responds to various power-related events.Īmong those events, if PowerChute detects that: This is key, because if the wall outlet ever wavers or loses power, the battery in the APC can automatically supply emergency power to anything plugged into it for a time - which is usually your computer and monitor, at least. Note that the APC unit also contains an internal battery that is constantly kept charged by the wall outlet (hence, why it is chunky), even as it sends power through its strip-like outlets to the computer and peripherals. It installs and looks like a chunky power strip: plug it into your wall outlet, then plug your computer (and related peripherals, such as monitor) into the APC unit's power strip sockets. Let's say you obtained this APC 650W uninterruptable power supply for your computer:
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