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Blue|Fusion
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Yes. I was going through the config looking at settings. Nothing really to cahnge except for the OS shutdown time, which was 60 minutes default. That is the only setting I changed based on the deep battery test - changed it to 5 minutes.
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DragonMaster
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| Posted: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:22:34 Post Subject: |
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| Quote: | | Nothing really to cahnge except for the OS shutdown time, which was 60 minutes default. |
Do they think everyone use VIA C7-Ms with 4" LCDs? |
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Blue|Fusion
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DragonMaster
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| Posted: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:03:43 Post Subject: |
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| Quote: | | No. they think we're powering a desk lamp with it. Can't let that light go out in a power outtage... |
We're going to put software on our lamps to make them auto-shutdown  |
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Blue|Fusion
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| Posted: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:02:27 Post Subject: |
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YOu betcha. The O/S is called Microsoft Windows Light..but people often mistake this for Microsoft Windows Lite. Go figure.
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Das Capitolin
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| Posted: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:30:42 Post Subject: |
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| DragonMaster wrote: | | Two 21" LCDs? Shouldn't be too much for the UPS. |
Dragon, are you aware that LCD's consume almost as much wattage as a same sized CRT? 21" LCD's would consume almost 150-250 watts all on their own. |
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| Posted: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:45:11 Post Subject: |
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| Das Capitolin wrote: | | DragonMaster wrote: | | Two 21" LCDs? Shouldn't be too much for the UPS. |
Dragon, are you aware that LCD's consume almost as much wattage as a same sized CRT? 21" LCD's would consume almost 150-250 watts all on their own. |
What kind of LCD's are YOU using?
a 20-21" LCD should be around 55-65 watts each so maybe 125-140 watts MAX, a 21"CRT will be 125-200 watts nominal but may peak briefly much higher (especially at start up (tube/gun heaters and the degauss circuit can easily knock an otherwise adequate UPS offline instantly due to the surge of turning on or waking a monitor from sleep mode)
LCD's use 1/2 to 1/3 the power of a similar sized CRT, and don't have the large surge/draw that CRT's do.
I do agree that the belkin UPS is providing alittle less then you MIGHT expect based on the information given, and it is quite possible the batteries are less then 100% ( many items end up On-sale at buy.com Because they are "stale" i.e. to long in the warehouse/shelf, end of model life, over production, etc.
Belkin should still honor the warranty.
Based on a quick glance at their site, I believe the grossly exaggerate/mislead the consumer about the power output and reserves/holdup time of their UPS's. |
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DragonMaster
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| Posted: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:44:17 Post Subject: |
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Dragon, are you aware that LCD's consume almost as much wattage as a same sized CRT? 21" LCD's would consume almost 150-250 watts all on their own. |
I don't think so, and the others either.
A CRT needs to have the heater, flyback, degauss, electronics, CRT, SMPS, etc. to run, while the LCD has an inverter with 4 or 5 4-6w CCFLs, the LCD itself, the small digital electronics and the SMPS transformer & inverter to run. |
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