Router Battery Backup

cavedog said:
Anyone got this UPS? R485 seems like a really good deal. @Yuu

UltraLAN Micro UPS (DC, USB & PoE) - 17W 8.8AH

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I do. Powers metrofibre nokia ONT and edgerouterx. Didn't have enough juice to power the AX3, but I haven't tried disabling 5ghz. It just doesn't switch on at all. I just got a killawatt meter so will measure AX3 over the weekend. I thought moving edgerouterX to POE it would help but still the same.
 
I bought one of the Ellies Mini cube units, its connected to the mains and powers a nokia ont and a tp link router.
I find that it doesnt last during stage 2 loadshedding and dies despite having adequate time to recharge.
Is my unit faulty? What would be a good replacement?
 
gopes said:
I bought one of the Ellies Mini cube units, its connected to the mains and powers a nokia ont and a tp link router.
I find that it doesnt last during stage 2 loadshedding and dies despite having adequate time to recharge.
Is my unit faulty? What would be a good replacement?
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IIRC that Ellies is around 100Wh? Those two devices together shouldn't use more than 20W, meaning the cube should keep running for 4 hours. If it's tapping out before that something is most likely wrong.
 
gopes said:
I bought one of the Ellies Mini cube units, its connected to the mains and powers a nokia ont and a tp link router.
I find that it doesnt last during stage 2 loadshedding and dies despite having adequate time to recharge.
Is my unit faulty? What would be a good replacement?
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Something definitely wrong, mine has coped with occasional 4 hour outages in the past with ease. Mine also just connected to the ONT & router.
 
Speedster said:
IIRC that Ellies is around 100Wh? Those two devices together shouldn't use more than 20W, meaning the cube should keep running for 4 hours. If it's tapping out before that something is most likely wrong.
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It should defintely last the 4 hours. I have more redundancy as I use a seperate mini UPS for ONT, router and second router that I use. One of these is a Mini Cube. That way the battery does not get used up too much. Still the MC should handle two devices for loadshedding Stage 2.
 
Thanks
I bought it from PnP in Dec. -R1299
They swapped it out for a new one today - now selling at R1599
 
Because I trust you guys so much, I thought I'd ask a question here.
I bought this Vizia UPS for fibre.

But in my wisdom , I see the router and ONT are both 1.5amp at 12V.
The UPS is max 24W and if I understand correctly, I need 36W.
Correct?

I'm thinking of returning it, are there any other recommendations?
 
JimboBob said:
Because I trust you guys so much, I thought I'd ask a question here.
I bought this Vizia UPS for fibre.

But in my wisdom , I see the router and ONT are both 1.5amp at 12V.
The UPS is max 24W and if I understand correctly, I need 36W.
Correct?

I'm thinking of returning it, are there any other recommendations?
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Do not stress. Remember that the router/ont will probably never draw 12V1.5A, especially not the ont. The Vizia will run it without a hitch, unless the router is like some monster/beast of a router.
 
Stay faar away from Geewiz, their returns department is a nightmare. Had to send a router back for a refund and they couldn't even communicate or arrange a pickup had to drive there drop it off and still wait for them to decide to email me to prove that I dropped it at them. They dropping them balls baby, Use to love them but wish no good
 
JimboBob said:
Because I trust you guys so much, I thought I'd ask a question here.
I bought this Vizia UPS for fibre.

But in my wisdom , I see the router and ONT are both 1.5amp at 12V.
The UPS is max 24W and if I understand correctly, I need 36W.
Correct?

I'm thinking of returning it, are there any other recommendations?
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ld13 said:
Do not stress. Remember that the router/ont will probably never draw 12V1.5A, especially not the ont. The Vizia will run it without a hitch, unless the router is like some monster/beast of a router.
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Those things never really pull the maximum power they're rated for. Just think about it - a router + ONT pulling over 15 to 20 Watts!? Really? Just to route some signals? Highly unlikely for home devices.
 
JimboBob said:
Because I trust you guys so much, I thought I'd ask a question here.
I bought this Vizia UPS for fibre.

But in my wisdom , I see the router and ONT are both 1.5amp at 12V.
The UPS is max 24W and if I understand correctly, I need 36W.
Correct?

I'm thinking of returning it, are there any other recommendations?
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I have the Guzzu, which is probably a distant twin brother of yours
It runs fine with a Hauwei ONT, an Ubiquity Edge Router X and an AC lite. It works fine.
 
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