{"id":24,"date":"2006-01-03T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-11-12T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T23:03:55","slug":"new-years-resolution-for-your-tivo-a-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/01\/new-years-resolution-for-your-tivo-a-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"New Years Resolution for your TiVo &#8211; a UPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the best thing you can do to keep your TiVo up and running? Get it on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000BFYPM8\/dvr-20\">UPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the basic idea: Your TiVo is a computer, and you probably have a UPS on your computer. For the same reasons, you should have one on your TiVo. It&#8217;s a computer also, and, frankly, the power supply in it likely isn&#8217;t as robust as the one in your computer.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what a UPS is, it&#8217;s basically a battery that goes between your TiVo and your wall outlet. If the power drops &#8211; even a bit &#8211; then the UPS takes over and adds the power back into the equation from its battery. So the TiVo won&#8217;t see a power drop at all &#8211; and the drive inside the unit is much less likely to be damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have their units plugged into surge suppressors. That&#8217;s half the battle &#8211; those keep too much power from getting to the unit. But a UPS does both: it keeps too much or too little power from hitting the unit, and both can seriously damage a TiVo.<\/p>\n<p>Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001985SWW\/dvr-20\">this<\/a> pretty inexpensive unit from Amazon, or find one at your local Staples or Office Depot. It&#8217;s a good investement.<\/p>\n<p>We have more info on our site about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/protect.php\">using a UPS with your TiVo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the best thing you can do to keep your TiVo up and running? Get it on a UPS. Here&#8217;s the basic idea: Your TiVo is a computer, and you probably have a UPS on your computer. For the same reasons, you should have one on your TiVo. It&#8217;s a computer also, and, frankly, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}