Hello, so what I have here is a
APC backup
battery, this is a
650 VA
360 watt and it says 67 minutes runtime for PC loads, and I'm going to talk about connecting that to a
Synology NAS. So what I have here is a
DS718+
And I have a
I'll put a link in the description to this
exact
UPS on Amazon
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So if you aren't familiar with these UPS devices most of these are
have a lead acid battery a sealed lead acid battery, which is
Kind of similar to a car battery
in a way
and
You plug in your
computer this to this and if your power goes out it automatically switches over to
The battery and if the power comes back on it switches back to power
So
There are a couple different models here
I
like to use
For my my network router I have one of these that does not have a USB connection on it
Which is here it's a USB data port and then
Because it doesn't have that capability but if you're hooking up to a computer, it's nice to have this USB data port
So this will plug in to your computer and it will
Shut down your computer
After a certain amount of time if the power goes out, so it looks like there's a certification
Good thing here
And we need to open up the bottom
And connect the battery
These come disconnected
Sparked a little bit there
Okay, and we can pull the sticker off
Like there's also a little sticker here
It has a neat feature it has a
Kind of like a USB charging port here
so if your power went out you could say plug your phone in there for an emergency and
The instructions here
This packet has the USB port our USB cable
So this here will plug into the
side here
and
then this will plug in to either the front or
The back of the NAS. So most people I imagine will plug this into the back
Then this plugs in the wall, and then you'll plug your power adapter from your Synology
into
One of these battery ports here, so this one has five
Battery ports and these are just regular surge ports. So if the power goes out, these will be powered these two will not so
And you can read this through the directions. There might be a couple different modes on here to do some things
Not real sure
Like you might there might yeah, I might have to hold this down to reset it or something. I'm not sure because I
Think you can mute it because these things will often beep when the power goes out. So
I'm gonna look through that real quick and I'll let you know. Okay?
So I read through this real quick
So you can press this button to turn it on and then to turn it off you hold this down for two seconds
If the power goes out this will beep and you can just press this once real quick and it will mute that alarm
So and they put the delay in there so you don't accidentally shut it off
so hold it down for two seconds to shut it off and
Hit it once to mute that so once you know your power is out you probably don't need to be reminded all the time
You're probably in the dark so
So I'm gonna plug this into the NAS and then well look through the
the interface on how to configure this
okay, so I have the
The DS718 the power of it is plugged into the UPS. I have the USB cable
connected between the UPS and the DS
718
I have the UPS plugged into the wall. So I have everything plugged in together, and I've
started it up and I've logged into the DiskStation manager and
to enable this we'll go to control panel and
We need to go to this hardware and power down here oops
Let me go back
if you're not seeing that you want to toggle between
Advanced mode and basic mode. So you're typically in
Basic mode you click advanced mode and hardware and power will show up if we click on that
You'll see these tabs here for general power schedule our drive hibernation and UPS on power recovery. We want to
Check the restart automatically after a power failure
And we want to go to UPS
And we'll say enable UPS support and here you can change the time
before the DiskStation enters safe mode, so
Once the power goes out it'll the clock will start counting down and you could say, you know, shut it down after
Say 10 minutes
but what I like to do is just say until low battery, which is the default so
It will stay on as long as possible when the battery gets too low to support the DiskStation. It will shut the DiskStation down
Because often times it seems like power garage for just a few minutes and then it'll come right back on
So so we've enabled UPS support we want to shut down the UPS when the system enter safe mode so make sure that's checked
There's this enable UPS server
So we don't want this check but I'll show you what this is
We can go in here and enter in the IP addresses of
Permitted DiskStation devices. So say you had two or three of these plugged into one UPS
There's only one USB cable connection between the UPS and the NAS device
so
The one DiskStation will get the message from the UPS that the power's out and then this can transmit that to the other
NAS devices and it will tell them to shut down. So that's
networked
UPS server. So we're gonna
uncheck that though and then we can hit device information here and it says
The manufacturers American power conversion or APC it has the model
The status is connected the batteries charged to 93% and it has the estimated battery life
I think that's what that says
Estimated battery time. Yeah
So you want to check that to make sure it's plugged in correctly. Once this is done we can hit apply and
Now if the power goes out it will
Shut down, it will alert the NAS that the power's got out and it will
Shut it down when the battery's low so what I'm going to do here is I'll simulate this
Let's see I hit apply
Then we'll close this it says changes are not saved maybe I probably didn't save this on the general page maybe
Now let's try and close it
Okay, I'm gonna leave I think I have everything saved
Yes, okay, so
I'm going to unplug the UPS from the wall, which will simulate a power outage we should see this
The notifications in here should come up and say that's been disconnected. So all unplug that so the
Power is unplugged to the UPS
And
You'll see here. It says system event the UPS device connected to DS718 is entered battery mode
So I will also have a notification in my email now. I have another video
It'll be a link to my Synology playlist down below. But I have a video on setting up email notifications
On your Synology system and if you have that set up properly and your power goes out
You will be notified. So that's kind of a nice feature and
Now I'll plug this back in we'll see what happens okay, it's plugged back in
So in just a second here we should see a notification
You may need to refresh this okay says a UPS device connected to the
DS718 has returned to AC mode. So I also received two emails
Saying that I was disconnected and reconnected, so if I were not home right now and the power went out for a few minutes
Assuming the my internet is still up so you obviously would need your internet also on a backup battery device
Then it would let me know
That the power is out. So
You know if this is just in your home, it may not be a big deal
But if it's in an office, you may need to contact some people
To let them know the power is out. I don't know so
but if you have any questions
About this, please leave them in the comments
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