“I have a VOIP phone system, and want to keep my internet working so I will have a working phone. How long will this UPS battery backup keep working?”
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Your question is similar to how long will a rotisserie chicken last in a household? It depends upon how hungry you are. It depends upon how hungry your devices are. Assuming that your internet is still working, you can power the modem, router and a number of devices. The more devices, the shorter your uptime. If you have a printer connected (because you may need to print an important document as soon as the power fails, you might power that down as soon as you can. In most cases you might not want to have the printer on the UPS side and rather connect it to just the SURGE side. I have my UPS powering a desktop, an LCD display, my VOIP phone, a router and cable modem. If the power goes out for more than 5 minutes, I start saving files on the computer and gracefully shut it down (there is an option in software to have the computer shut down or hibernate), but I prefer to do it manually, saving certain files first. I also have an LED bulb in a desk lamp. I turn this on and it stays on until power returns. I have another UPS in the living room with multiple LED lights plugged in. That allows me to see while the rest of the neighborhood is dark.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.How long this UPS will last depends on what is plugged in. The manual and the product details give a description of how long this will last depending on estimated devices plugged in. Personally, though, I have a monitor, phone charger, gaming computer, speaker, router, and a PS4 all plugged into the battery on the UPS and it estimates that the battery will last around 102 minutes.
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