On 7/3/11, Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
be a good investment, but still I wonder why there are no offers on the market with a "boosted" PSU units that can sustain DC power for a couple of seconds during the AC "blinks". They don't even need to use a battery, maybe a set of condensers could sustain power for a short period (although I might be wrong, never did the numbers on that).
Given that I believe there certainly is a market for such a PSU, I'm just surprised nobody is selling it yet. You cannot assume that the AC wall outlet will always provide perfect power... ;-)
Ah, manufacturers do sell this stuff at least a few years back. It came with a battery pack that was installed into the 5.25" drive bay. But as this type never made it into mainstream awareness, likely due to the low cost of a basic UPS nowadays, it just didn't make sense when such a PSU cost almost the same as a normal PSU + UPS. And the UPS had a longer run time as well as being able to support a few other accessories at the same time, and acts as a shield by sitting between any power surge and your PSU, as opposed to the PSU + battery.