Radiation from a UPS
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Published on 2012-11-23T13:03:19Z
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In our office, there are frequent eletric shortages that harm my desktop computer, so I wanted to install a UPS. However, my office-mates pointed me to papers talking about hazardous radiation from the UPS. The UPS manufacturers themselves recommend to put the UPS several meters away from humans, which is not possible because our office is small (the power is about 0.5 meters from us). As an alternative to UPS, my office-mates recommended that I switch to a laptop, which has a battery so it's immune to shortages. I have several questions:
Is it true that the radiation from a laptop battery is lower than the radiation from a UPS? They do just the same thing - supply power using a battery!
If the answer to 1 is yes - is there an alternative way to attach a battery, similar to a laptop battery, to a desktop computer?
If the answer to 1 is no - how can I prove this to my office-mates, so that they let me use UPS?
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