Any Recommendations for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

Flame Hardware Questions
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I run my home Flame on a HP z840 with Quadro P6000.
I just bought a second P6000 for use with Background Reactor.

I read that I should buy a UPS, but am not sure how much output it should have.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a particular model of UPS,
or a suggestion as to the power output it should be able to deliver?

My z840 has the 1125w PSU and each P6000 has Max Power Consumption of 250w.

thanks

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Checkout APC’s site to configure to your needs.

There should be a template for generic devices like servera, switches, disk arrays and the like, even if you don’t know the exact power consumption of your devices.

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You’ll likely end up with either an APC or Cyberpower. Even under full rendering load you are likely to only be using 450-750 watts. If you are in the US and unless you have a dedicated 20amp + circuit for a bunch of gear, you’re more limited by 15amp / 20amp versus anything else. So, find something in the 1500VA/900watt range and you’ll be fine. Anything bigger and you’ll probably be hiring an electrician.

I own a couple of these:

and a few of these:

…with no problems.

I’d always budget for one for your Flame, one for your networking gear, one for your shared storage.

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Thanks so much Randy!
This is a big help

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I use this: it powers my Sony OLED, MacBookPro, Imac, Dell, LG big screen, a pair of Genelecs, A Z8, LTO drive and bucketloads of removable drives with room to spare. They don’t last forever though. We’ve had a couple fail in the last two years. I don’t recall how old they were.

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Thank you!

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Thanks for the link!