How much load do you have on your UPS?

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Just out of interest, what kind of UPS's are you running and what do you have connected to them?

We have a APC Back-UPS RS 1500G. It's powering a PfSense box (Old Pentium Core pc), two i5 servers, a HP Microserver (NAS), two modems and an external hard drive.

Still have to connect our two switches.

Currently the status looks like this:

What kind of load are yours running at? And any recommendations on what the maximum load should be?

 

[Pada]

I'm using an APC SmartUPS 1000VA (600W) and I actually got it to to peak just over 100% load. It would run at about 80% when I'm playing games.
Typically mine is running at about 30% load.

I ran the following off it:

• Gaming PC: i7 920 @ up to 3.6GHz, 2x GTX460 @ up to 850MHz ~ 120 - 550W
• Dell 3008WFP (non LED 30") monitor ~ 100W
• HP Microserver N36L with 4x 2TB Green HDD's ~ 40W
• Buffalo WiFi AP & Gigabit router
• D-Link DSL-2500U ADSL modem
• Corsair SP2500 (2.1) speakers

I don't have this setup running at this moment, because I moved out of my flat - so I don't have a screenshot/proof

 

[Tinuva]

Heh pada, have you tried to see if you can run games on the UPS while the power is out? I get an instant turn off from my UPS in such a case with my gaming pc. While playing games, load is at 80%, and UPS is not really going to work if power goes out, if not load is at about 27% on gaming pc ups.

Then I have a ups for my HTPC, that one runs at 25% average.

Then lastly I have another ups for my network devices, currently a Billion adsl router, and my mikrotik RB751G, and that ups runs at 0.5% to 1.5% load.

HTPC, when power goes out, can run for about 28min, then the HTPC shuts down. Sadly the UPS doesnt turn of the port and back on when power comes back, even though that is set up on my NUT.

The network stuff, I haven't had a long enough outage to lose power, but I calculater 5 hours 30 minutes that it would last at that load looking at the cacti graphs.


Oh for interest sake, the temperature of the one UPS:

All of these are cheapie Proline UPSs. probably 600VA or something silly. Got them free, replaced the 12v batteries in them, which is the same ones most alarm systems use.