Running a Home-Office Through a UPS

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday September 21, 2005 @02:30PM from the something-an-electrician-should-do dept.

mwagner_00 asks: "After spending lots of money and time, I now have an office in my home. My wife and I both have computers (mine is a high powered gaming rig), and I also have a workbench where I work on other people's PCs. I have a web/email server as well. I would like to protect the investment by running the room's power through a UPS. I have a APC 3000NET that my workplace was going to throw out. The only thing it needs is a good set of batteries. Has anyone tried something like this before? Basically I want to find the breaker for the room, and after the breaker, run the power through the UPS and back out to the room. Is the UPS that I have sufficient to run a whole small office?"

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Re:18 amps by Bastian · 2005-09-21 15:12 · Score: 4, Interesting

On top of that, wiring the entire room up to the UPS would result in a crazy waste of the UPS's power.

If the power suddenly goes out, do you really want the lights in the room simultaneously drawing extra power from the UPS and hiding from you a pretty good clue that the power just went out?

This is surely not the way a UPS meant to be used. I've certainly never seen one hooked up this way.