Beginners Guide to Using a Battery Backup UPS System

If you are in an area that has frequent power blackouts, brownouts, and spikes in your electricity, it's essential to have a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to protect your sensitive electronics. This video explains in a simple way how a battery backup system (UPS) can shut down your computer gracefully in the event of a power failure.

APC BR1000G Back-UPS Pro 1000 Uninterruptible Power Supply

Keep your Electronics safe during a power spike or failure!

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[mydogvlad]

Even 8 years later this video still provides valuable information

[YoungGun]

3+ years later this video is still very useful! Thanks.

[FriginHavoc]

Click on video settings. Speed 1.5. You'll thank me later.

[GruberCommunications]

Great video, definitely informative to the beginners out there!

[JuanTorres-binp]

I like this video. Pretty straight forward; not a wannabe geek guy trying to appear friendly and fun, or using "up talk" to look tech savvy.
This works, honest and plain english. Nice! thank you

[Epsilon-yczm]

Dude you literally made my life much easier thanks

[dawnmyers]

I’ve had an APC unit and it has covered my computer in a couple outages. It’s nice to know what all the numbers mean! Also, had no idea there was an online connection. Great info!

[SERGE_Tech]

so glad someone got a video about this.

[pensura]

after shutdown of pc and you off the ups, do you need to always plug it out of the wall socket? or jsut leave it plugged 24/7 (charging)? im confused some say plug it some say let it plugged

[domsee]

You have a voice like tupac shakur. Life goes on boy! Rock n roll to the world!

[Hopegirls]

nice if you're in an outage-prone area but i'd like to see a backup unit go several hours rather than an hour+.  nice vid steve.

[Atekcs]

Good Job Steve! I always find your videos informative. Keep it up!

[starrydi]

Thank you so much for your video. It is so helpful for me as I have this in my recording studio.

[ThatGuy-mndk]

Good video dude! I subscribed! I didn't know much about UPS systems but now I do thanks to you and your video. Thanks dude, keep up the good work! 👍🏽

[Ez-skig]

Interesting display, but there are more than just 2 battery outlets, it is the entire left row, the top two on left and the grey ones on the right use a power command feature so that when the pc, which should be getting its power from the master plug, is no longer drawing current above a programmed setting, the other grey plugs turn off. But the are 4 battery outlets and 4 surge only outlets.

[MrStarTraveler]

If you're going to power a pellet stove with this, make sure the stove doesn't use an induction motor for the exhaust fan, or that the UPS outputs an actual sine-wave and not a setp-sine waveform! Induction motors cannot run on step-sine waveform! Unfortunately those kind of stoves almost always use induction motors and this type of UPS does output step-sine waveform (I got he same).


So if everything ran well with no problems, I would be very surprised. (I hope it did though!)

[Sjrick]

I love these detailed videos. nice job !!! I just picked a couple of these up from Amazon and im looking to replace my older basic models. The older ones just cant handle the load im putting on them, so hopefully these will fit my needs. I like the pc screen info so you can look at it better. Im assuming there are Mac versions too ?

[laureenalford]

Is the APC unit used instead of or in addition to a surge protector?

[drleo]

I have a cyber power 1500va. when I plug in the data cable no window show up I have not found out to open a window for the data.
There was a cd with it . If you have any ideas please let me know. thanks for the video....

[newls]

your videos are very informative.  Even though just like you, im more familiar with the technical side of PC's, its still nice to see basic learning videos like these.  Thanks