OK guys here in Pakistan all know about the power outage issues. Its a big disaster of our country. Guys like me who work all the time using their Computers and solely depend on the power to get them going. To get the creative juice flowing, you need power right? So everybody is buying a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). My American Friends always ask me, what is this and hope you all know why. Because they never need it, while here in Pakistan, its a household term.

Anyhow, the Good news is after getting burnt for so many years by PESCO ( That’s whats the new name of WAPDA ), I decided to buy that cool thing called UPS. This is not like APC UPS (widely used with mission critical systems in USA), which gives you backup time for like 35 minutes. Rather I went for the custom solution.

My friend Farhan’s father has his own developed circuitry for UPS that he has started selling recently. He has been in great demand lately for his custom UPSs. I even asked him a hundred times before I got mine and it was specially done for me. Got it shipped from Lahore to Rawalpindi by train. And hand picked on last Friday’s evening after Aftar.

Farhan has done some rigorous testing of the thing as as its 500 watts, I was able to easily run a TV, a Media Server and my brand new LCD monitor and its worked for 2 hours until I switched it off myself. By the way, battery being used was Excide N145. 145 is the Ampere for the battery.

So I have taken all the things back home in Mansehra. Planning to by two batteries one 100 A and one Excide N5200.

The quotes I have got from local market in Mansehra are

Model Price
N185        PKR 9500/-
N5200      PKR 10,500/- (Gonna buy this)
N140s      PKR 7,500/-   (and this)

So the power outage for continuous 10 hours wont be a big deal now. All I have to do is to get a good fast internet connection and I will be able to work from home again after a long long time.