Takealot UPS units - Fake reviews?

[lexor]

Maybe they're just good UPS's? If it was a local product I could understand a possible conflict of interest, but why would anyone care how well these things sell?

I have this UPS, also RCT:
http://www.takealot.com/rct-2000va-line-interactive-ups/PLID32714413

And it is brilliant. Lasts for quite a bit of time after the power has cut, despite powering my 700W PC and stacks of peripherals.

Does the UPS come with a battery inside ?
If so - aH of battery ?

 

[Bryn]

I bought 2 of these. Haven't really been in a position where I needed to test them. The only problem is there's no way to permanently disable the alarm beeps. If you power off the UPS via the button at the front, the alarm is enabled again.

The beeping is bloody annoying. I'm tempted to follow the advice in this thread and break off the alarm.

Does the UPS come with a battery inside ?
If so - aH of battery ?

It has to have a battery, otherwise how does it retain any power? I don't know what the specs are. Perhaps the Takealot link I gave earlier lists the spec?

 

[KOPITE]

Does the UPS come with a battery inside ?
If so - aH of battery ?

Comes with 2x 9ah battteries

 

[lexor]

Comes with 2x 9ah battteries

Thanks

 

[biometrics]

Came here for fake reviews. /leaves

 

[Bull1012]

Getting it from a guy in Pinetown. He's doing the modification for me as well.

R1460 per battery. Brand: Energizer. R250 labour. Can PM you his details if you want.

Can you PM me his details as well please

 

[cavedog]

The beeping is bloody annoying. I'm tempted to follow the advice in this thread and break off the alarm.

Did that with my old UPS I got from Matrix back 3 years ago. Best solution. Open it up switch it on to pin point exactly where the speaker is if you are not sure and unplug the battery then remove or clip the wires.

 

[ghostR]

Did that with my old UPS I got from Matrix back 3 years ago. Best solution. Open it up switch it on to pin point exactly where the speaker is if you are not sure and unplug the battery then remove or clip the wires.

Using Winpower, I managed to disable the Beeping from the software monitoring app. That beeping drives you insane during load shedding lol.

 

[cavedog]

Using Winpower, I managed to disable the Beeping from the software monitoring app. That beeping drives you insane during load shedding lol.

My old one did not have any software to switch it off. In fact my new 1200VA CPS one does not. Lucky for me the new one you can barely hear and I don't care because it just keep my stuff online until I can start the generator and flick the switch over switch.

 

[hilton]

Just use Prestik on the little speaker, then if the UPS goes faulty one day your warranty claim won't be rejected.

 

[cavedog]

Just use Prestik on the little speaker, then if the UPS goes faulty one day your warranty claim won't be rejected.

That is a very good idea too.

 

[SurfMan123]

I have 4x 2000VA RCT. Very good so far, no complaints. One even powers the gate and garage doors.

 

[akescpt]

I have 4x 2000VA RCT. Very good so far, no complaints. One even powers the gate and garage doors.

doesn't your garage doors have a backup battery? I thought about doing it but I thought the garage door motor needs more power.

 

[Coasti]

OP, i think you might be on to something. I took a small sample of 5 product reviews with 417 total reviews between them:
45% of the reviews were from people where the exact same reviewer name accounted for at least two reviews.
13 names from the 417 reviews contributed to 17% of the total reviews.
Coincidence? You decide for yourself..

 

[SurfMan123]

The backup batteries eventually gave in, so now this little unit powers both double garage doors and gate quite comfortably.

 

[Frankie23]

Picked up a RCT 2000VA on Monday. Three loadshedding days later, my ADSL router and 2x wireless access points happily stay up during a full loadshedding window.

So far I'm very happy with this little acquisition.

 

[henry1103]

Picked up a RCT 2000VA on Monday. Three loadshedding days later, my ADSL router and 2x wireless access points happily stay up during a full loadshedding window.

So far I'm very happy with this little acquisition.

So you powered all 3 modems to your RCT2000VA using the default battery that was provided or extended battery?

 

[Dan C]

So you powered all 3 modems to your RCT2000VA using the default battery that was provided or extended battery?

The unit should handle 3 modems easily with standard batteries.

 

[henry1103]

The unit should handle 3 modems easily with standard batteries.

If we assume each router runs 12V1A, so 12VA x 3 = 36VAh
The batteries 12V x 7Ah x 2 = 168VAh
Assuming the RCT runs 80% efficient, 168Vah x 0.8 = 134.4VAh
134.4VAh / 36Vah = 3.7hours from 100% to 0%

So running battery from fully charged till 50% will take 1.85 hours...
Running the battery below 50% is harmful to the batteries, correct?
Is this calculation correct? Or am I missing some points?

 

[Dan C]

If we assume each router runs 12V1A, so 12VA x 3 = 36VAh
The batteries 12V x 7Ah x 2 = 168VAh
Assuming the RCT runs 80% efficient, 168Vah x 0.8 = 134.4VAh
134.4VAh / 36Vah = 3.7hours from 100% to 0%

So running battery from fully charged till 50% will take 1.85 hours...
Running the battery below 50% is harmful to the batteries, correct?
Is this calculation correct? Or am I missing some points?

It has 2x 9ah batteries