Monday, October 24th 2022
Eaton Unveils Pure Sine Wave Battery Backup for Uninterrupted Video Gaming
Power management company Eaton today announced a new innovation in backup power for video gaming with the North American launch of its Pure Sine Wave Gaming uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The new Tripp Lite by Eaton solution delivers clean, reliable power in AC and battery backup modes and is designed to prevent game crashes and audio/video problems.
"Whether you're a casual gamer or a seasoned pro, no one wants to have their experience interrupted by power problems," said Rusty Scioscia, product manager, Eaton. "Our Pure Sine Wave Gaming UPS was designed with gamers in mind to regulate voltage irregularities and provide reliable battery backup to make sure play continues without disruption."
The new line-interactive UPS provides 600 to 1500 VA of pure sine wave power that is compatible with active PFC power supplies, high-performance gaming components and other sensitive devices. Automatic voltage regulation (AVR) corrects abnormal voltage conditions to prevent instability. Surge protection shields connected equipment from damaging power spikes.
Battery backup ensures uninterrupted play and streaming during short outages. With the addition of an external battery pack (sold separately), the 1500 VA model provides up to 50 minutes or more of battery runtime.
The Pure Sine Wave Gaming UPS monitors the connected PC's true power draw in real time and displays voltage, wattage and battery level data on the detachable wireless LCD control panel. Four strips (two banks) of programmable RGB color LEDs coordinate with gaming setups and can respond to the PC's power draw with user-definable colors and lighting modes. The LEDs are controlled via the detachable LCD or a free downloadable software utility.
To conserve power, energy-saving outlets turn off if the PC or other device connected to the master outlet shuts down or enters standby.
Key Features of Pure Sine Wave Gaming UPS
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Eaton
"Whether you're a casual gamer or a seasoned pro, no one wants to have their experience interrupted by power problems," said Rusty Scioscia, product manager, Eaton. "Our Pure Sine Wave Gaming UPS was designed with gamers in mind to regulate voltage irregularities and provide reliable battery backup to make sure play continues without disruption."
Battery backup ensures uninterrupted play and streaming during short outages. With the addition of an external battery pack (sold separately), the 1500 VA model provides up to 50 minutes or more of battery runtime.
The Pure Sine Wave Gaming UPS monitors the connected PC's true power draw in real time and displays voltage, wattage and battery level data on the detachable wireless LCD control panel. Four strips (two banks) of programmable RGB color LEDs coordinate with gaming setups and can respond to the PC's power draw with user-definable colors and lighting modes. The LEDs are controlled via the detachable LCD or a free downloadable software utility.
To conserve power, energy-saving outlets turn off if the PC or other device connected to the master outlet shuts down or enters standby.
Key Features of Pure Sine Wave Gaming UPS
- 600 to 1500 VA output capacities
- 8 or 10 NEMA 5-15R outlets with USB-C and USB-A charging ports
- Detachable wireless LCD control panel offers easy UPS monitoring up to 20 feet away from the UPS base
- PC's real-time power draw is indicated via LCD control panel and dynamic LEDs
- Energy-saving outlets turn off if the PC or other device connected to the master outlet shuts down or enters standby
44 Comments on Eaton Unveils Pure Sine Wave Battery Backup for Uninterrupted Video Gaming
(let's pretend I was just explaining the units, those are correct :D )
Eaton - switch over to your secondary UPS , then your tertiary UPS
:)
I bet all the guys in Eaton's marketing department usually have their UPSs at home on top of their desks too.
I can only game for about 10 minutes b4 shut down.
And the only thing I kinda like is the detachable LCD screen. I do wonder if the LCD-screen can be turned-off cause on my ups it can't (night light!)
It would be more efficient by avoiding the multiple AC to DC back to AC and on to DC conversions and instead offer something similar to a laptop power supply experience.
Also, a laptop's configuration is set by the manufacturer and, being known and locked, so is the respective battery capacity, which you then get to complain if it's not enough to suit your needs but can't really do anything about unless return the product to then get another marginally better one.
In a desktop, configurations vary wildly and so it never really made sense to adopt a standard (because desktops have more of those than laptops) for that aspect. Finish the setup, measure the whole system power draw and get the corresponding VA vs. runtime vs. budget combination.
Anyway, no. You don't have many models of Lithium units of something that exists inside a desktop where you would find an ATX PSU. Reasons are what I stated.
You have 1~3U rackmount UPS or whole room monoliths that cost considerably more than your typical VLRA UPS. The former won't change and they don't get bigger/smaller because: A. Nobody would in their right mind think the TCO and ROI made sense (especially now) and B. Exactly what you said:Which is the whole point of a UPS: When power fails, you have 100% cap to drain. True for in-line, especially true for line-interactive.
Li-ion is not a savior when by the first time a full-power system is held by it, unless the battery pack is in cryo, it will lose at least 5% of it's full charge capacity from the current draw and resulting heat alone.
Remember, your usual Lithium combination does not take a punch of current the same way a Lead-Acid considers it a slap.
If the system is critical or draws a considerable amount of power, VRLA is still the way to go, even if it is environmentally not the greatest choice.
The only thing that I agree with you is that the units would be lighter, but in a UPS, does that really matter when it's the most stationary part of the system?
A UPS basically gives the operator three choices when the power goes out: A.) wait for the power to come back on while there is still some battery charge left, B.) shut down the system gracefully to prevent damage to equipment and data or C.) buy time to give the operator the opportunity to switch to a different power source. The latter isn't really available to the typical residential user; it is available to many IT professionals who might have an on-site generator (often powered by a fossil fuel burning engine) to provide power.
UPS lead-acid batteries are designed to be used infrequently unlike lithium-ion batteries in cellphones and other personal electronics which are expected to be depleted in regular usage.
Higher VA units might be better at converting power, mine is 3000VA/2100W for example, and it's an older unit from APC.Standards. Sometimes they're great sometimes they stagnate everything.
Could be done with a 12VO PSU, with a DC input, but technically it'd be a proprietary design, not ATX compliant, and then not only you'd need to buy a PSU but also an external unit that feeds the power supply but also works as battery backup, the idea is fine but it'd be too complicated to implement, and expensive.
If the external unit outputs 12V then the internal would be way more simple, but then you have another issue, in order to connect both together you'd need thicker cables, for a 65 amp PSU the wires would have to be... 16 mm² in cross-section, that's... big. In comparison a mains cable typically has 1mm² wires inside, two or three of them. It wouldn't be an issue for industrial machinery but believe me a cable so thick in a desktop computer would look really out of place.
There's also the smaller wires + more pins way but it's kinda the same but more expensive when you think about it.
An ATX power supply is already pretty big. You'd still have to stick the batteries someplace.
If you moved the entire power system outside the case, you'd end up with a mass of power cables going from the power unit to the case (motherboard, CPU, graphics cards, SATA, Molex, whatever) which have a high risk of damage/danger being exposed.
The 0.6/60% is not efficiency, it's power factorFun fact, any PSU has a hold up time after AC power loss (by design, not like it just happened to be there), it's just too small to do anything usefull.
Like others mentioned, standards, praticality, etc, don't really cater to an UPS built in outside of very specific industrial level applications.
If UPS manufacturers used watts by default, that'd be great. But yeah marketing believes "bigger number = better xd" so they go for VA and mislead some people, not everyone knows VA aren't equal to W in this case so they buy one thinking it'll support a 500 or 1000W load only to be disappointed when the power goes out.
I think they should target being able to supply (almost) the entire power as either active or reactive and mention clearly the max/min power factor allowed with their total power VA rating. They do that in the spec sheet, but makes no sense advertising 1500VA when the UPS will only be able to supply 900W