- Does as it says on the box - Michael, 12 March 2024
This is nothing too fancy - it does exactly what it says on the box and no more. I have this connected to my gaming PC and monitor - average draw is about ~700 watts at peak load while gaming. During the switchover from Eskom to my wall-battery, this UPS has managed to keep my PC alive even during max load. I can't say how long it lasts total, but I've seen it run for a few minutes while waiting for the switch.
My one complaint is that the fans in the UPS can get a little noisy - headphones are recommended while using it.
- Perfect - Jacques, 13 February 2024
Bought a few of these 850VA, 1000VA and 2000VA RCT UPS's for an office that switches over to a generator during loadshedding. Works great, and they don't make a sound, so quite seamless. If it weren't for the lights that go off you wouldn't even notice that loadshedding started. SA Plugs at the back makes it very easy to implement. Really great products!
- Good product - Luke, 12 May 2023
Switches over to battery immediately, even at full load. A little bit noisy when the fan kicks in, but who notices when youre gaming with a headset anyways?. Perfect for generator switch over.
- Fantastic - Ryan, 26 August 2020
Works as advertised, good build quality. Will run my Wifi and TV for over 2 hours during load-shedding. The rear cooling fan is a little noisy but not enough to be annoying. Very happy with this purchase. Thanks Wootware!
- Does its job, but not very refined. - Jarrod, 23 April 2018
Out of box impressions:
- This thing is massive and heavy. Despite the same power rating, Its much bigger than the Mecer ME-1200-VU 1200watt UPS.
- Build quality is acceptable, not great though.
Performance:
- At around 500watts load (non-battery mode) my unit emits a high pitched whine that stays so long as the unit is under load. It is very annoying if you are near it. I solved this by moving it a few meters away from me. If you place the unit under a high enough load, it will eventually turn its little fan on and then it becomes fairly noisy.
- When it operates on power-loss or battery mode, the fan is set to always-on and the unit makes an audible buzzing noise so long as it's in this mode, it's fairly noisy but ultimately not a concern because it's temporary so long as there is power loss. You will only be in this mode for a few hours at best.
- The Viewpower application which is used to link the PC to the UPS (via USB) for monitoring and configuration purposes, is very dated. The interface is very old school and operates in a browser window. That's fine but I encountered a problem with the software on win 10. It was working fine, but at some point, I am not sure when, the programme would place a single core at 100% utilisation, it didn't matter if I restarted the pc or ran a virus scan, the programme would immediately max out 1 of my CPU cores upon bootup and stayed that way. This increased CPU temps by 15 degrees c and slowed certain operations down. The only "fix" I managed was to uninstall the ViewPower software. The UPS still works fine without it, and without a connection to anything, you just won't be able to configure certain things like network power on/off, power state statistics and a lot of other things. Bottom line is that it still protects connected hardware from hard shut-downs and/or unintentional loss of power, which is actually what matters with these things in my opinion and use case. When I first discovered the poor use of resources by the Viewpower application, it was shown as "Java Platform SE Binary 32 bit" under task manager. Under task details I saw it was the ViewPower app. You might not have the problems I have if you're on a different operating system, or a different version of win 10, its difficult to say, but keep this in mind at least.
