I read about the guy who used a UPS to power his system, and really liked the idea. I found a page that allows you to enter a custom VA rating, and they return the cheapest UPS that will support that much power. I know nothing of power, and have no clue how much VA a system uses, or any of the components.
If a hard drive says 250mA/5V (idle) and 500mA/5V (seek), would that be 5 VA for the hard drive? How much do other components take up, such as the motherboard, CPU, sound card, and NIC? My system is a P100 with 32MB of RAM..
The site is here:
<a href="http://www.tripplite.com/sizing/VA.cfm">http://www.tripplite.com/sizing/VA.cfm</a>
[This message has been edited by degraz (edited 11-28-2000).]