Would a UPS be as good as the PS power?


I am thinking of getting a UPS for all my equipment, and since i can get them at cost, they will be significantly cheaper than the PS power plant. Will they do the same job?
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Showing 1 response by panzercat

I have an APC SmartUPS 2200 on my system. I had a lot of trouble at this house with short power outages, usually just a few seconds, and besides being annoying when the DVD player resets etc, its not good for the equipment when the power comes back on suddenly. Make sure when you get a UPS that it has a pure sine wave output on the inverter. Most UPS models use a square wave or sawtooth wave since they are designed for computers - and the computer power supply can smooth that out good enough, but for an audio system, that will create a buzz and is probably not very good for your system. The APC SmartUPS series has a sine wave output, but the other models like BackUPS use a stepped square wave so you'll want to avoid that.