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The Best in Surge Protection- An UPS, Battery Backup

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     The most important question you need to ask when you buy a UPS backup is how much time you have to shut down or back up your data if the power goes down. Obviously, if you purchase a UPS backup that lacks the muscle to sustain your load in the event of a power outage, you’ve wasted your money.

How Un-interruptable Power Supplies Can Save Your PC

     If only it were as simple as plugging your computer in and leaving the rest up to Mother Nature. Unfortunately, PCs are finicky about what goes into them. Just like a nutrition-conscious athlete relying on a precise dietary regimen to fuel championship performance, a computer needs a specialized power diet to perform to its optimal levels. If you don’t inject enough power into your PC, your system will behave erratically or even black out (analogous to the times when you skip a meal and your blood sugar gets dangerously low). Conversely, if you feed your computer system too much power the excess energy will overwhelm its minuscule circuits, which are the thickness of a human hair or even slimmer. As any experienced computer user knows a PC with millions of fried circuits is not a lovely thing.