Hi All,

Apologies if this is in the wrong community.

I’m looking to get a UPS for my home server. It runs Homeassistant, Plex, and a few other things. I mainly need something to protect from power flickers/blips, and for it to allow a proper shutdown for prolonged power outages.

Here is the power useage on all my devices:

  • Server: 350w
  • NAS: 90w
  • Router: 42w

Any info on what to look for or which model to buy would be greatly appreciated.

  • TheOneCurly
    7•1 year ago

    The two biggest things to look for other than capacity:

    • Line interactive versus standby. If you have a lot of over and under voltage events line-interactive is preferred. Standby will only kick in when power actually cuts.
    • Pure sine wave. I think power supplies are better about this now, but for some time PC power supplies only really worked on pure sine wave UPSs.

    I bought the CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD in 2015 and its been rock solid. I replaced the batteries for the first time last year.

    • @chronically_crazyOP
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for breaking it down like this. This made it alot easier to understand.