I am ‘on the verge’ of ‘popping for’ (purchasing) a Jackery 1000, I would appreciate feedback/opinions as to whether or not A COUPLE OF WAYS I might intend to use it (a) would work and (b) would be safe and not cause any harm to the Jackery itself.
(Jackery 1000’s ‘cost a fair bit’ and so I’m trying to really, really think this thing through and imagine but not simply imagine as many possible ways I could use it in order to maximize the value I get out of it for the money paid).
FIRST: one of the ways – one of the possible uses I thought I might be able to ‘get’ out of a Jackery 1000 would be to (try to) use it as a ‘UPS’ for DESKTOP COMPUTERS. Using a watt, I measured the power draw of the System Unit of APC I built (Ryzen 3600) and was pleasantly surprised that, at idle, it only consumed around 78 W.
Now, it seemed to me that – since either the AC charger that comes with the Jackery can put out about (at least) 165 W or so, that it should be more than sufficient to ‘keep the battery topped up’ even while my desktop computer was ‘Drawing Power’ from it. “I kind of figure” and hope that, for example, if the power got interrupted, the desktop computer would simply be able to continue on operating normally without ‘missing a beat’, without even noticing anything. (I am aware that the Jackery will automatically turn off power to AC outlets after a 12 consecutive hour of ‘no power demand at these outlets greater than 10 W during that period) but that wouldn’t be a factor I need concern myself with in my case and even if one were to be concerned about it – say that for one reason or another one was in the habit of putting one’s PC to ‘sleep’ or ‘hibernation’ or something OR if for any reason the PC was completely not drawing any power for more than 12 hours, that could be easily – it seems to me – be worked around by putting any old greater than 10 W load on the AC terminals from just about any other source you could imagine. (You could even use a couple of 7 W night light bulbs).
Anyway, I can’t see any reason whatsoever why this should not work, and there are several other ways I feel I could use the jackery to maximize the use I get out of it but this struck me as a very interesting potential possible use. Yes, I know, that was the power draw ‘at idle’ and of course it would be higher if I were actually using it but that still I don’t think should be a problem because I still got about another 80 W or so to play with and even typical computer monitor probably doesn’t draw more than about 30 W or so at most. (I checked the power consumption of the largest computer monitor I owned and it was only around 30 W).
In any event, I am one of those skeptical people who don’t like to assume that something that seems pretty obvious like this will in the end, actually work because I might have overlooked something, so I either have to see it for myself or prefer to ask somebody else for their opinion who may have actually tried to use one this way OR might be able to ‘punch a hole’ in my reasoning?
Comment?
(Jackery 1000’s ‘cost a fair bit’ and so I’m trying to really, really think this thing through and imagine but not simply imagine as many possible ways I could use it in order to maximize the value I get out of it for the money paid).
FIRST: one of the ways – one of the possible uses I thought I might be able to ‘get’ out of a Jackery 1000 would be to (try to) use it as a ‘UPS’ for DESKTOP COMPUTERS. Using a watt, I measured the power draw of the System Unit of APC I built (Ryzen 3600) and was pleasantly surprised that, at idle, it only consumed around 78 W.
Now, it seemed to me that – since either the AC charger that comes with the Jackery can put out about (at least) 165 W or so, that it should be more than sufficient to ‘keep the battery topped up’ even while my desktop computer was ‘Drawing Power’ from it. “I kind of figure” and hope that, for example, if the power got interrupted, the desktop computer would simply be able to continue on operating normally without ‘missing a beat’, without even noticing anything. (I am aware that the Jackery will automatically turn off power to AC outlets after a 12 consecutive hour of ‘no power demand at these outlets greater than 10 W during that period) but that wouldn’t be a factor I need concern myself with in my case and even if one were to be concerned about it – say that for one reason or another one was in the habit of putting one’s PC to ‘sleep’ or ‘hibernation’ or something OR if for any reason the PC was completely not drawing any power for more than 12 hours, that could be easily – it seems to me – be worked around by putting any old greater than 10 W load on the AC terminals from just about any other source you could imagine. (You could even use a couple of 7 W night light bulbs).
Anyway, I can’t see any reason whatsoever why this should not work, and there are several other ways I feel I could use the jackery to maximize the use I get out of it but this struck me as a very interesting potential possible use. Yes, I know, that was the power draw ‘at idle’ and of course it would be higher if I were actually using it but that still I don’t think should be a problem because I still got about another 80 W or so to play with and even typical computer monitor probably doesn’t draw more than about 30 W or so at most. (I checked the power consumption of the largest computer monitor I owned and it was only around 30 W).
In any event, I am one of those skeptical people who don’t like to assume that something that seems pretty obvious like this will in the end, actually work because I might have overlooked something, so I either have to see it for myself or prefer to ask somebody else for their opinion who may have actually tried to use one this way OR might be able to ‘punch a hole’ in my reasoning?
Comment?
