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@owashii@plush.city why is that?
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@owashii@plush.city if you're worried about being able to afford it we can help, though we can't pay the entire cost
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@owashii@plush.city if you think that could be the case call an electrician to inspect it asap
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@owashii@plush.city it's possible there's a bad connection or damaged wire somewhere that's causing voltage drops when loaded and if that's the case that can cause an electrical fire inside the wall, which in general is the worst type of fire because by the time you've noticed it's happening the structural integrity of the building is already severely damaged
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@owashii@plush.city the thing is, that peak capacity number shouldn't matter when it's not running off the battery, i.e. when mains power is present

do you have any way of monitoring mains voltage, like a kill-a-watt or something? I have (very unlikely but serious in the house-burns-down way if true) concerns about your house wiring
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@owashii@plush.city VR is pretty intensive yes

when you said normally i thought you meant like, constantly
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@owashii@plush.city that's a *lot* of power for any computer to be using continuously, you may want to look into that

I guess your UPS just beeps when it detects an overload even if the battery isn't in use maybe??
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@owashii@plush.city https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/APC-Smart-UPS-750VA-120V-LCD-6x-NEMA-5-15R-outlets-w-SmartConnect-port/P-SMT750C I believe this is the one our work uses for their compute server, though it might be a higher power or capacity one than this
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@owashii@plush.city okay i looked into the details and this one is nominally a standby (aka offline) UPS so it shouldn't??? be drawing any load from the battery??? when there's mains power available

however it is only rated for 300 watts output which is less than a high-performance computer running at full capacity may need (but substantially more than an idling or lightly-loaded desktop needs)
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@owashii@plush.city that thing looks microscopic though, is that a normal size for consumer UPS models‽ the one our work uses for the server is the size of a desktop PC tower itself
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@owashii@plush.city weird, APC is a pretty good manufacturer of those

though we've never used their consumer-grade stuff
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@owashii@plush.city the fact that mains power is just directly connected through, however, means that there's no limit on the current they can output (provided proper wiring is used) other than the limit on what it's plugged into (15 or 20 amps for a standard US residential circuit)
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@owashii@plush.city getting interrupted..?

Do you have a model number or anything? That would be how to tell what type it is, looking up the specs

the alternative is to open it up and look at the circuitry inside but that seems kind of more trouble than it's worth
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@owashii@plush.city offline and line-interactive UPSes just switch mains power directly through when they do have power, and switch a relay when mains power is lost; this means that when power is lost, the output loses power for a few milliseconds, but this isn't a problem for most things since they're designed to deal with AC that keeps dropping to zero momentarily anyway
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@owashii@plush.city do you know if your UPS is double-conversion or not? a double-conversion UPS *always* goes through the battery, which means that there's literally zero interruption when power is lost, but also that the output inverter is a limiting factor no matter what, whether wall power is available or not

that sounds like it's what your problem is
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@owashii@plush.city Oh i was confused, you're talking about a UPS (an *uninterruptible* power supply, not universal)
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just want to lounge around headless.....
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@ziphi Fuck pinterest.
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@ziphi I actually wouldn't be surprised if they did that with a snorlax as a reference
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@LexYeen "Kobold-made" is a sign of the greatest quality
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