Ideal for living room entertainment spaces and home office workspaces with multiple peripherals including TVs, Monitors, Speakers, Ink-jet Printers and Network Routers
Performance
Shows UPS’s designed to protect equipment up to a maximum of 1200 Watts.
Ideal for power-hungry performance computers, external home servers, networking and storage devices and large entertainment areas with external sound system
UPS Selector FAQs
Does the UPS Selector recommend the lowest cost solution?
The UPS Selector attempts to determine the lowest cost solution when there are multiple options matching your requirements. It then provides other alternatives, which often differ by providing either slightly more features, more power, or more run time than your stated requirement.
How can the UPS Selector say my PC draws 60 Watts when I know it has a 110 Watt power supply in it?
The power supply rating of your computer is the maximum power it can supply. The actual power it is called upon to supply is set by the components inside your computer like the motherboard, accessory cards, and disk drives. Manufacturers always oversize the supply because A) it runs cooler, B) it lasts longer, and C) they need to be conservative since they don't have any contol over what you can put into the expansion slots. Therefore it is very common that a computer will only draw half of the rated value of the power supply.
How does the UPS Selector work?
The UPS Selector determines the power draw of your equipment by interviewing you about your system and then drawing upon an extensive database of actual power measurements for equipment and peripherals. In addition, the UPS Selector has a database for actual power consumption of computer components such as processors and disk drives. This allows the UPS Selector to determine your load power requirement. The UPS Selector requests your preferences for run time, room for growth, and specific features you want. The UPS Selector has a mathematical model of every Goldenmate UPS that describes the product limitations and the run time of the UPS vs load. Using all of this information the UPS Selector can solve for the APC products that best match your requirements. The UPS Selector is even smart enough to assemble combinations of Goldenmate products including battery packs and other accessories to match your needs.
Why does the UPS Selector indicate a lower power rating than the nameplate of my equipment?
Equipment nameplate ratings are never lower but often higher than the actual power drawn by electronic equipment. Nameplate ratings are required by regulatory agencies such as the EC or UL and are required to represent a power or current rating which the equipment will never exceed. As a result, manufacturers often are extremely conservative and place high nameplate ratings on equipment. It is not uncommon for the nameplate rating of computer equipment to be over two times the actual power draw. The UPS Selector power ratings are more accurate than nameplate ratings because they come from a database of actual power measurements for systems and configuration options.
