Router Battery Backup

[supersunbird]

Groan. Fine. I'll go get the old APC at the office when I next go in and fix it. Probably needs a new battery too so will have to open it anyway. Now there's likely a battery shortage, right?!

Told you about the Eaton UPS and my testing, nothing about APC except that one has to press a button every time it is active, so as to mute it temporarily.

 

[Lupus]

Look at the price not too long ago.

 

[Anthro]

Prime example that Takealot is BS lol "Was R1600, Was R1900" HAHAHHAHAHAHA

 

[ginggs]

Look at the price not too long ago.
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"Prices subject to change"

 

[PhireSide]

Like the piece of prose, we had about DSTV decoders and their software bugs years ago.

9 bugs in the SW, 9 bugs in the SW
1 bug gets 'fixed'
10 bugs in the SW, 10 bugs in the SW
(or words to that effect)

 

[airborne]

Blob of prestic over buzzer hole , will drop volume.

Just put some presstik over it, easy to remove if you need to warrantee it.

 

[ebendl]

on the description

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Terrible way to state it! They wanted to make sure

BTW, I see Takealot is increasing the prices for the above quite substantially.
I bought it at R799 early this morning. When I checked again it was increased to R899. And currently now it's at R1199.

I noticed. Pretty sucky.

Last night:


This morning:


Now:


Just shows how fake the "was" price (and the 30% discount) is!

EDIT: sorry, missed everybody's discussion around it.

I ended up buying another (the more old school 1850 mAh 12v 2A one) from Geewiz which still has the same price -- and they had in stock. Raru and ComX has another one but can't say for sure when I'll get it: https://www.comx-computers.co.za/PO...i-UPS-for-POE-and-DC-devices-Buy-p-231648.php

 

[awsumco]

Has anyone tried RATEL from Communica:

RATEL 430S

Micro DC-DC UPS Lithium-ion Battery Bank (4x2200ma Li-Ion) 100~240VAC / 50~60Hz, MAX O/P PWR:30W, O/P: USB:5VDC @ 2.0A /10W, 9/12VDC @ 2A, Solar I/P:12~25VDC Upto 50W, (186x110x33) 0.43kg Overview The OmniPower Ratel 430S is a 30W DC-to-DC micro UPS with USB, DC and SOLAR charging options...

www.communica.co.za

 

[Geoff.D]

I am reporting them to the CC!
And don't tell me this is the market system at work, supply and demand! BS! if Supply and demand gets programmed into a computer it is no longer representative of the free market system but just another self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[ebendl]

I am reporting them to the CC!
And don't tell me this is the market system at work, supply and demand! BS! if Supply and demand gets programmed into a computer it is no longer representative of the free market system but just another self-fulfilling prophecy.

I agree. This is BS.

 

[supersunbird]

Check out the communists above. Businesses buy UPS to sell an then loadsheddinf stops and they sit with the stock for months, taking up space, and then loadshedding happens and everyone wants to buy again. Should have bought before loadshedding like me, don't come cry now.

 

[phly]

BTW, I see Takealot is increasing the prices for the above quite substantially.
I bought it at R799 early this morning. When I checked again it was increased to R899. And currently now it's at R1199.

 

[ebendl]

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More than double the original price in less than 24 hours. Insane!

 

[phly]

More than double the original price in less than 24 hours. Insane!

I wonder whats their shame price limit. The price point they'll need to hit and get ashamed for hiking it to such a level.

 

[ginggs]

I wonder whats their shame price limit. The price point they'll need to hit and get ashamed for hiking it to such a level.

Algorithms know no shame. I wonder if it is all of us hitting that product page that is pushing the price up.

 

[netcruiser]

I wonder whats their shame price limit. The price point they'll need to hit and get ashamed for hiking it to such a level.

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That's obviously shameless, but it is sold by a third part (Vizia) not Takealot directly, so I suspect it is Vizia that determines the price.

 

[ebendl]

That's obviously shameless, but it is sold by a third part (Vizia) not Takealot directly, so I suspect it is Vizia that determines the price.

I think so too. They've increased the other "mini-UPS's" that they sell too.

 

[ebendl]

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[Geoff.D]

Takealot caught at it! Take the site down. Great solution. SCUMBAGS!

 

[Kappie 17]

Hi everyone, trust all well. I’d like to setup a UPS to power my fibre router (Tenda AC18; 12V, 2.5A) and ONT (Nokia ONT; 12VDC, 1A). The UPS is 2000VA, output power factor of 0.9 and has 4 batteries (12V, 9aH per). Before Eskom strikes (again) later tonight, and before I connect everything, I wanted to ask whether my calculations below were correct, please?

UPS: 12V x 9aH x 4 = 432 watt hours (not sure if multiplying by # of batteries is correct?)
Router & ONT: (12V x 2.5A) + (12V x 1A) = 42 watt hours

Runtime (50% load) = (432/42/2) * 0.9 = ~4.5 hours

Many thanks in advance.