No-break and "stabilizers"

[JefersonEuclides]

First of all, let me explain what I mean with "stabilizer": here in Brazil we use these things http://www.kabum.com.br/perifericos/energia/estabilizador (which I don't know how you call it in English) to turn on computers, tvs and some others electronics to avoid putting directly into the socket (and not seeing everything burning with the first rain). But, these days someone told me I should not use them, once I have a 430W PSU and a good GPU, he said that the stabilizer would not let the PSU work as it should, and would damage both the GPU and PSU. However its been 6 months that I bought the PSU and GPU and nothing has happened, thus I'm sure this stabilizer is not one of those powerful stabilizers, because I've been using it for 10 years -- yes, TEN years --.

So my question is: what you guys think of this situation? Has it been damaging my PSU/GPU? Is there any way to test it?

I don't know by heart its capacity, but once I get home I'll check it and post here.

(Poor English, I'm sorry!)

 

[hunter315]

The english terms you were looking for are UPS(Uninteruptable power supply) for the ones with a battery backup, or AVR(automatic voltage regulator) for the ones without a battery back up that just clean up the line.

There are known issues with cheaper UPSs that output a square wave when they cut over to battery power, some PSUs do not like this and will make a clicking sound or drop out when the UPS cuts over to battery.

The link you posted seems to consist of AVRs, I don't know of any issues with AVRs and PSUs, they are a bit simpler and are designed to keep the line voltage looking like line voltage. The purpose of an AVR is lost if you start outputting a crappy square wave instead so the vast majority of them output a true sine wave.

 

[makkem]

Hi
Those look like voltage stabilizers in that they keep your supply voltage constant when the incoming voltage fluctuates.
They will not harm your PSU the only problem you could have is if the PSU pulled more power through the stabilizer than it was rated to handle then it could possibly damage the stabilizer.
So keep using that stabilizer.

 

[JefersonEuclides]

Well, by the description, I have an AVR, and its capacity is of 300VA, while my PSU is 430W. I don't know, I think that what is saving me is my processor, it's an I3, it doesn't need to much power, but I want to buy an I5, and then I think I'll have some problems...