To power devices using UPS

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Morning to you all

I have a question, when buying a UPS.
Do you take the primary wattage or secondary wattage to work out wattage required for a UPS.

I need to keep power during a power outage.
Wi-Fi camera. Input 100-240V 0.7 Watt Secondary 18Watt 12VDC 1.5A
Router. In 100-240V 0.15A
Power over Ethernet 100-240V 0,06A

The last two no secondary ratings.

Based on this what UPS to buy. I want 6 HRS backup time.
 
Morning to you all

I have a question, when buying a UPS.
Do you take the primary wattage or secondary wattage to work out wattage required for a UPS.

I need to keep power during a power outage.
Wi-Fi camera. Input 100-240V 0.7 Watt Secondary 18Watt 12VDC 1.5A
Router. In 100-240V 0.15A
Power over Ethernet 100-240V 0,06A

The last two no secondary ratings.

Based on this what UPS to buy. I want 6 HRS backup time.

I'd look at one of the DC ups for your use case, one with PoE. A quick guestimate puts your usage at about 30W, so for 8 hours you'd need 240Wh. At 3.6V (most DC ups) that is 66Ah. The top end Ratel or UltraLAN should suffice.
 
Morning to you all

I have a question, when buying a UPS.
Do you take the primary wattage or secondary wattage to work out wattage required for a UPS.

I need to keep power during a power outage.
Wi-Fi camera. Input 100-240V 0.7 Watt Secondary 18Watt 12VDC 1.5A
Router. In 100-240V 0.15A
Power over Ethernet 100-240V 0,06A

The last two no secondary ratings.

Based on this what UPS to buy. I want 6 HRS backup time.

You take the input voltage so the 100-240v one unless you drop the power supply and feed it at the device dc rating.

But you are mixing units there. Watt is a function of amps multiplied by volts.
 
I'd look at one of the DC ups for your use case, one with PoE. A quick guestimate puts your usage at about 30W, so for 8 hours you'd need 240Wh. At 3.6V (most DC ups) that is 66Ah. The top end Ratel or UltraLAN should suffice.
Dont need PoE
 
You take the input voltage so the 100-240v one unless you drop the power supply and feed it at the device dc rating.

But you are mixing units there. Watt is a function of amps multiplied by volts.
Don't forget 0.8 cos
 
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