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Hey digital console users don't forget your UPS
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<blockquote data-quote="Sean Verwey" data-source="post: 81166" data-attributes="member: 3809"><p>Re: Hey digital console users don't forget your UPS</p><p></p><p>Folks, you gotta be careful. If you add a UPS, what you are actually doing is adding another 'point of failure'!</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying 'don't get one', but what I am saying is that if you do, you gotta make sure that it is a good quality one (which may cost more than the 10% of even an X32!) Lets face it, you always get what you pay for, so going down to your local electronics store to bick up a 'bargain bin' UPS probably is not the best approach.</p><p></p><p>Not only are you adding in additional electronics, but additional connectors as well, as you daisychain the power. Make sure that the power plugs can be secured or screwed in place, and that the power switch for the UPS isn't a standard rocker or 'press' switch that one can bump with the knee, make sure it is sheilded.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, I'm certainly not an authority on UPS's, but I know there are 2 types. The Standby type and the Online type. The Standby type (which is usually the cheapest) passes your mains current through, and only when it detects a power failure, or a significant brown-out voltage, does it click over to the battery circuitry. The Online type uses the power supply to continually charge the batterties, while supplying power to the load using the battery circuitry.</p><p></p><p>As you can see, the standby type will do nothing for you to clean up 'dirty power', or minor voltage fluctuations. The Online type will do a much better job at protecting your equipment.</p><p></p><p>So..... be careful out there!</p><p></p><p>(then of course, there are the UPS's that modify a chopped waveform by using inductors and capacitors, and are nasty beasts in terms of audio, then those are the ones that generate a nice tidy sine wave.) </p><p></p><p>10%....? Not so sure about that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sean Verwey, post: 81166, member: 3809"] Re: Hey digital console users don't forget your UPS Folks, you gotta be careful. If you add a UPS, what you are actually doing is adding another 'point of failure'! Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying 'don't get one', but what I am saying is that if you do, you gotta make sure that it is a good quality one (which may cost more than the 10% of even an X32!) Lets face it, you always get what you pay for, so going down to your local electronics store to bick up a 'bargain bin' UPS probably is not the best approach. Not only are you adding in additional electronics, but additional connectors as well, as you daisychain the power. Make sure that the power plugs can be secured or screwed in place, and that the power switch for the UPS isn't a standard rocker or 'press' switch that one can bump with the knee, make sure it is sheilded. As an aside, I'm certainly not an authority on UPS's, but I know there are 2 types. The Standby type and the Online type. The Standby type (which is usually the cheapest) passes your mains current through, and only when it detects a power failure, or a significant brown-out voltage, does it click over to the battery circuitry. The Online type uses the power supply to continually charge the batterties, while supplying power to the load using the battery circuitry. As you can see, the standby type will do nothing for you to clean up 'dirty power', or minor voltage fluctuations. The Online type will do a much better job at protecting your equipment. So..... be careful out there! (then of course, there are the UPS's that modify a chopped waveform by using inductors and capacitors, and are nasty beasts in terms of audio, then those are the ones that generate a nice tidy sine wave.) 10%....? Not so sure about that. [/QUOTE]
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