Portable Power Station And UPS For Power Outage For Laptop and External Monitors?


If you want to use your laptop for hours after a power outage, turn off your monitors. Unless you can give a good reason why you can't this is the way to go. I'm sorry if I'm wrong., but going by all of your post here and else where, I feel that you just want to play with our heads and don't really need any help.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro 24H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    PowerSpec B746
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-10700K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming 4/ax
    Memory
    16GB (8GB PC4-19200 DDR4 SDRAM x2)
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TI
    Sound Card
    Realtek Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    #1. LG ULTRAWIDE 34" #2. AOC Q32G2WG3 32"
    Screen Resolution
    #1. 3440 X 1440 #2. 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    NVMe WDC WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 1TB
    Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB
    PSU
    750 Watts (62.5A)
    Case
    PowerSpec/Lian Li ATX 205
    Keyboard
    Logitech K270
    Mouse
    Logitech M185
    Browser
    Microsoft Edge and Firefox
    Antivirus
    ESET Internet Security
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Canary Channel
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    PowerSpec G156
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
    Motherboard
    AsusTeK Prime B360M-S
    Memory
    16 MB DDR 4-2666
    Monitor(s) Displays
    23" Speptre HDMI 75Hz
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe
    Keyboard
    Logitek K270
    Mouse
    Logitek M185
    Browser
    Firefox, Edge and Edge Canary
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro 24H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    PowerSpec B746
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-10700K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z490 Phantom Gaming 4/ax
    Memory
    16GB (8GB PC4-19200 DDR4 SDRAM x2)
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TI
    Sound Card
    Realtek Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    #1. LG ULTRAWIDE 34" #2. AOC Q32G2WG3 32"
    Screen Resolution
    #1. 3440 X 1440 #2. 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    NVMe WDC WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 1TB
    Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB
    PSU
    750 Watts (62.5A)
    Case
    PowerSpec/Lian Li ATX 205
    Keyboard
    Logitech K270
    Mouse
    Logitech M185
    Browser
    Microsoft Edge and Firefox
    Antivirus
    ESET Internet Security
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Canary Channel
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    PowerSpec G156
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
    Motherboard
    AsusTeK Prime B360M-S
    Memory
    16 MB DDR 4-2666
    Monitor(s) Displays
    23" Speptre HDMI 75Hz
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe
    Keyboard
    Logitek K270
    Mouse
    Logitek M185
    Browser
    Firefox, Edge and Edge Canary
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
Okay so in my situation, do you still recommend me to buy replacement batteries for the UPS that I have? Or just forget about that and buy a portable power station with a good amount of whr?


Is it better to have a UPS and a portable power station? It would seem that having my laptop and 2 monitors connected to the UPS probably is the idea situation? Then once the UPS runs out of battery or I have a 5 minute break, then I disconnect the cables from my laptop and the UPS and connect cables to the portable power station?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
The reason I need the monitors on is because I'm playing online poker. I have 2 monitors... one is a 32' 4k Samsung monitor and the other is a 24' 1920x1200 monitor. I play online poker and have tables on those 2 monitors. I could play only on my xps 15 9520 laptop but the screen is too small. The big issue is I play a lot of tables so the amount of tables and overlapping tables makes it almost unplayable for me. Imagine having to do things on your laptop screen but you have a ton of chrome windows opened and you don't have another monitor. That is how it is for me when I play. Does that make sense? Just imagine having a lot of software opened and usually those software are opened on 2 external monitors but you doing all this on one laptop screen.


I do not want to have any downtime when a power outage happens. Because when that happens right now, I literally have to disconnect my 2 cables from my xps laptop and my 2 monitors in order for my laptop to work. The moment power outage happens, all my screens turn dark until I disconnect the 2 cables. Then everything would show up on my laptop. I then have to turn on my wifi hotspot on my iphone and connect to the hotspot on my laptop. Then I continue playing on my laptop screen with a ton of tables which is very hard to do. I would then connect my laptop to either my Anker 737 or Dell PW7018LC powerbank until it run out of battery or until the power comes back on. Now when the power comes back on, I then have to connect my 2 cables from my monitors back to my laptop. So doing this causes a ton of downtime and it costs me money when this happens. If I have a power outage during the middle of the session, that is a disaster. So I unregister any upcoming tournaments when this happens.


I want a solution where when a power outage happens, I can continue playing on my laptop with 2 monitors. Then when the 5 minute break comes, I still want to have some power on my UPS so I could then use that 5 minute break to then disconnect the cables from my UPS and connect those same cables to a portable power station. Then continue playing this way until the power station runs out of battery or I'm done for the day. So based on what I described, I should get new replacement batteries for the UPS. Then buy a portable power station that has at least 1000 whr then if I want at least 5 hours of backup for my xps 15 9520 laptop and my 2 monitors? I want at least my 32' 4k monitor to work. The 24' 1920x1200 monitor is still very important though as I use 2 monitors when I play.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro

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