On Aug 12, 9:07 pm, Arno Wagner wrote:

The price is all wrong. Nobody can build a decent product with
these specs for that price.


Well, it was a sale price. I'm not sure that anything they sell there
is "top of the line".

It seems to handle my 2 computers fine - a PIV 2.4 gig and a PIII 933
mhz sharing a monitor. With both machines and the monitor on, the
onboard readout shows them well below the unit's max capacity, drawing
about .250 - .260 kw (which I assume translates to 250 - 260 watts) ,
with an estimated run time of 9 minutes with both computers. More than
enough to get me through short hit outages with both machines running.

And with the el-cheapo battery in there, that figure will be down to
1 minute in no time. And you would be well advised to test the
claim. Software can be made to lie to you, you know.


I'm going by the readout on the front of the gizmo, though it does
have software that gives many of the same readouts along with some
other tasks.

A test to find out how long it will actually run the computer sounds
like a good idea.



Since this thing has a built-in watt usage meter, any reason I
couldn't hook it up to say a refrigerator or TV to check how much
wattage they're using?

A) the watt-meter is likely very crappy, given that a good AC
watt-meter costs more than this whole thing.


Maybe, but a lot of people seem to swear by the Kill-A-Watt meter,
which can be had all day for around $25 online, eBay etc.