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BELKIN Surge Protector with Battery Backup - 600VA - $59 ($7.95 Shipping Anywhere in Oz)

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BELKIN Surge Protector with Battery Backup - 600VA - $59 ($7.95 Shipping Anywhere in Oz)
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Store RepShopping Monster on 12/12/2011 - 12:18 shoppingmonster.com.au (494 clicks)
Last edited 12/12/2011 - 12:18

PRODUCT CODE: F6S600auUSB

OVERVIEW

The Surge Protector with Battery Backup not only offers the same level of protection against surges and spikes as a surge board, but it will also protect your precious memories and valuable data from being corrupted or lost during a power outage. If a power outage occurred and your computer was not protected by battery backup the following could happen:

Any changes that you have made to documents or files such as images, videos, email , word or excel files would be lost.
Any files being saved to the hard drive at the time could become corrupted and unusable.
Systems files (including temporary files) could become corrupted causing the operating system to become unstable, to the point where the computer wont function correctly.
Physical damage to the hard drive can occur. In some cases the files cannot be retrieved.

FEATURES

Data Recovery Warranty: If the Surge Protector with Battery Backup fails while properly connected and your computers hard drive is damaged, Belkin will provide professional data recovery services to retrieve the lost data.
Connected Equipment Warranty: Belkin will repair or replace any equipment damaged by a surge, spike, or lightning strike while properly connected to a Belkin Surge Protector with Battery Backup, up to $100,000.
3-Year Product Warranty: Belkin will replace, free of charge, any Belkin Surge Protector with Battery Backup that is defective or expires after protecting your electronic devices. There is no limit to the number of times Belkin will replace the expired Battery Backup during the warranty period.
3 battery backup with surge protection sockets and 3 surge protected only sockets.
RJ11/RJ45 surge protected combo port for telephone and data lines.
Certified to all Australian and New Zealand safety standards.
Generator Compatible.
Automatic power management shutdown software. Includes the ability to safely shutdown the attached computer and automatically save open files during power failure, scheduled shutdowns, diagnostic support, printable logs and history, visual metres & graphs
USB port for plug-and-play communication.

SPECIFICATIONS

Battery Load Capacity: 600VA (300W)
Battery Backup/Surge Protected Sockets: 3
Surge Protected Sockets: 3
Communication Interface: USB
Telephone Protection: RJ11/RJ45 - 1 In/1 Out
Power Cord: 1.8m with insulated pins
Typical Battery Recharge Time: 16hrs. to 90%
Typical Battery Life: 2-4 years
Battery Type: 12V/5Ah
Battery Output: Step Sine Wave
Battery Output Voltage: 230VAC +/- 10%
Battery Mode Frequency: 50Hz/60Hz +/- 1Hz
Operating Temperature: 0 to 40 degrees centigrade
Storage Temperature: -15 to 50 degrees centigrade
Operating Humidity: 0% to 90%
Altitudes: 0 to 3000m
Product Dimensions: 134mm x 88.6m x 357mm
Product Weight: 3.5kg
Generator Compatible
Non-spillable, sealed lead acid battery

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    • Gish on 12/12/2011 - 12:54

      Thanks Bruce,
      Was thinking officeworks might pricematch…

      • INFIDEL on 12/12/2011 - 12:56

        Go for it!

      • INFIDEL on 12/12/2011 - 12:56

        That Choice review is 3 years old BUT is this model.
        Good Points
        * Best ease of use overall.
        * Excellent software ease of use.
        * Relatively cheap to run.
        * Three-year warranty.
        * Second-lightest of all units in test.
        Bad Points
        * Nothing to mention.

        Tested/claimed Battery runtime under typical load: 7.5/30min

    • BluBoy on 12/12/2011 - 13:01

      Thanks for the links Bruce.
      The summary of the choice report it is easy to use, but performs fairly averagely.

      I'd probably go for it sub $50 delivered…

  • EnALup on 12/12/2011 - 13:05

    ."Operating Temperature: 0 to 40 degrees centigrade"
    Does it mean, we cannot use them, when its over 40degrees in summer or they will not pass the claims for using it against range?

  • Gish on 12/12/2011 - 13:22

    I can't seem to find if this UPS is 'line interactive' (which I believe as a benefit that it will buck (lower) and boost (raise) the power).
    We've got an issue where we constantly get higher than normal voltages and as a result devices keep blowing up.

    Anyone know if this will do it?

    • Jabba the Hutt on 12/12/2011 - 13:37

      Pretty sure it's just a standby type UPS.

      • Gish on 12/12/2011 - 13:41

        Yeah. Thought so. Thanks Jabba.

        • ESEMCE on 12/12/2011 - 14:33

          You're going to need a proper commercial unit to do that kinda work.. If it weighs anything less than 30Kg, it's probably not going to do a very good job of smoothing out the supply.

        • perkinma on 12/12/2011 - 19:54

          The Choice review mentioned top post listed which units (as of a few years ago) that they tested that were line interactive.

          I've just got the Eaton Ellipse Max 850 which is line interactive for $275 delivered. Not sure if it is a great price but I couldn't find it cheaper elsewhere in the little bit of searching I did (particularly with delivery included).

    • Duff5000 on 12/12/2011 - 16:57

      most of these type devices are really only spike arresters.

      Powerguard make some that also protect for over voltage. Pretty sure they will just shut the power off if the voltage is raised, not actually lower it. Plus is your equipment wont blow, minus is it will turn off.

      http://powerguard.com.au/prod/products.html

  • Jabba the Hutt on 12/12/2011 - 13:35
    +4

    Coincidentally, I tested the endurance of my F6S600auUSB on the weekend while stuffing around with my energy meter.

    Connected equipment:
    Core i5-2500K, Radeon HD 6850 desktop PC - idle Windows desktop
    Dell U2412M 24" LED monitor - 25% brightness
    TP-Link WR1043ND router - wireless on
    Netcomm NB6Plus4W modem/router - on in bridged mode

    Total load: approx 79 Watts

    Total runtime: 13 mins 30 secs

    The UPS beeps every 5 seconds when power is lost, and is supposed to start beeping more quickly when the battery is low, but interestingly it didn't do that on this occasion (it has previously). The beeping is kinda annoying for situations where you might want to use one of these to keep a router up for an hour or two, as opposed to giving some time to finish work on a computer and shut down.

    The battery inside mine is a Ritar RT1250 12V5.0AH/20HR for anyone who might be interested.

    • perkinma on 12/12/2011 - 14:33
      +1

      There is an option using the included software to disable the beep - it is a very loud beep so I've turned it off on both of mine, go UPS -> UPS Control Parameters -> Battery Mode Audible Warning.

      I'm impressed that your PC only uses 79W even on idle. My PC's are both 5yr old or so but I can't even get 3min backup time - most of the time the unit will kick out before my PC has even had a chance to shut down completely. Mine is a Core 2 Duo E6750 pretty much stock speed with NVidia GeForce 8800GTS and Samsung 226BW monitor - (can't wait for that new PC mid next year sometime) - but no idea of actual power draw because I don't have the external power measuring gear.

      I've just upgraded to an Eaton Ellipse Max 850VA about a week ago and on initial trials it looks like I'm going to get about 40min backup on idle - massive improvement over the Belkin F6S600auUSB although the Eaton did set me back $275 each including postage to Far North Qld.

    • bfg100k on 12/12/2011 - 17:49

      I got this unit from the Mwave promotion and it has never beep every sec (as stated in the manual) when the battery runs low. (it does beep every 5 secs on battery power though). I've tested this like 10 times and each time it will silently die after about 20+ mins on 40W load.

      • perkinma on 12/12/2011 - 19:48

        I'm kind of working from memory here but if you are not getting the rapid beep then I think the low volt immediate shutdown is cutting in before the stateful shutdown. Options would be (from the UPS -> Shutdown Parameter menu (using the included software)):
        a) Adjust the Battery Backup Time to reflect the time (maybe less one minute) that you are actually seeing from the unit and then set the System Shutdown Need Time to about 3 minutes and also set the Shutdown Alarm Interval to 3 minutes. This should cause stateful shutdown (and rapid beep) to commence 3 or so minutes before the low volt immediate disconnect occurs for your particular scenario.
        b) disable the Shutdown Immediate option but enable the Begin Shutdown When UPS battery Is At and set the capacity to say 30% or so - although this may not work if the low volts is occuring before the 30% capacity remaining occurs.

        I did a lot of testing years ago when I first got these to try and eke out a bit more backup time, from memory the Shutdown Immediately While Battery Low equated to about 70% capacity remaining although for the life of me I can't remember the corresponding voltage. I vaguely recall a recommendation from 'somewhere' that should not discharge a UPS beyond about 50% for optimum battery life but I had set mine at 20% (at least before I swapped them out anyway).

        From memory there is also a voltage at which the hardware will cutout regardless of the software settings but can't remember that value either.

        Should be able to verify all these values anyway just by enabling the logging (set the log interval to say 5 seconds and maybe check the max file length values first) then cycle it through a discharge cycle, reboot and check what happened at each particular point in time.

  • hiska on 12/12/2011 - 20:50
    +2

    Got one at Officeworks today with their Lowest price guarantee for $61.75, I'm glade this deal came out just when I needed a basic UPS for second PC..

    • Gish on 13/12/2011 - 08:42

      Cool. Glad to know they'd match it.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/12/2011 - 15:47

      Price match at Officeworks Midland (WA) today.

  • bmerigan on 13/12/2011 - 14:00

    Mine gives 5 or so minutes battery. That's with a power hungry desktop PC, modem and wireless switch attached.

    You definitely need to disable the beep.
    The first time our power went out after I installed it was at night and the beep is LOUD.

    Good though - very happy to have the PC stay on when the power drops out briefly.

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