Battery Backup Guide

Abbey B asked:


I have been using my computer on the same circuit for about a year now with no issues. The other day when I started it, about 10 minutes into using it, I hear a “pop” noise. My computer had tripped a circuit. I went to the box and reset it, and then I smelled smoke. I looked at my surge protector (it is about a $40 surge protector) and the light was still green (good) instead of red (fault). My computer will not turn on now. Hopefully it is just the power supply?

Neal V asked:


I just finished building my new PC. Here are the
system specs. What do you think?

APC Battery Backup
Antec Nine Hundred Case
Antec NeoPower 650W Power Supply
Asus P5N-D Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz 6MB Processor
Kingston 4G DDR2
GigaByte NVidia 1GB 9600GT SLI x 2 (2 of them)
WD 75GB Raptor HD
WD 1TB HD
Toshiba DVD/CD Reader
ASUS DVD/CD Burner /w Lightscribe
Saitek Cyborg Keyboard
Ligitech G9 Mouse
Sony 2.1 Speakers
Raider LED Mousepad
28 inch ViewSonic Display
Windows Vista

Did I do good? It runs AMAZING.
Jedi,
GPU:
Two (2) GigaByte 1GB NVidia 9600GT SLI cards

nubaii asked:


I live in Nigeria and power supply is rather erratic hence i am looking for a cheap alternative power soucre for my factory.

mct_ed asked:


I just recently had a brown out at my house and my pc shut down. when i got home i could turn my pc on but with no display or post. so i replaced the motherboard and CPU and memory. the pc still does the same thing so i just ordered a new power supply and videocard. i was wondering could the dying battery back up cause this? my battery back up just in the past 3 days has been getting really warm and my mom noticed today it smells like sulphur from it.

anyone got any ideas?

satmeet ubhi asked:


I usually run my laptop with power supply plugged in most of the time…someone told me that this can reduce the backup power of the laptop batteries…
Is it true?

Mazer.McB asked:


hey, well I got this battery back up for my computer, called “Back-UPS ES 500″, im just wondering, does it matter if i leave this box in the carpet? i know that if you leave your computer in carpet, the power supply gets messed up and dies (its happened to me a lot before lol) but i dont know if the carpet will do the same thing to my backup battery

in case anybody wonders what my backup looks like, here it is:

http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BE500U