Salloum wroteBeta0 wroteI would stress that a decent UPS is needed, I've heard news of SSD data corruption from game crashes or power blackouts bricking it.
Offtopic, but a UPS is needed for everything electronic ranging from your fridge to television. Basically anything with a PSU.
Defiantly but this one needs longer than average offline time depending on where you live. Ranges from 20 seconds to rarely as once a month for up to 30 minutes in my area. It's pretty common in this country to have this cycle: Dawle -1min-> Ishtirak -2 mins-> blackout -5 mins-> Ishtirak. A 10 minute UPS will shutdown on the second blackout, their charging is incredibly slow as well, that's why I said decent. Not a problem for TVs or PC with autoshutdown trigger
Most fridges if not all use capacitive power supply, in order to handle surges and very wide range voltage including brownouts and for cost effective reasons, not to mention it's easier to have monitoring circuit that way, inverter models are isolated, VFD-like. The only thing that makes sense using UPS is maintaining defrost cycle counter. That includes most medium power equipment and ACs. SMPS PSUs like TVs and desktop are very intolerant to under frequency on the AC side, worse with power factor correction many old private subscription providers do not monitor that, a dirty injector pump is all it takes to provide houses 45 hz or so until someone notifies them, not all providers are the same.
