UPS buying suggestion

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:34 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> The power meter will show you the actual W consumed by the device but
> not the VA that your UPS will have to deliver.

The shown kWh can be converted to average W, where VA more or less is
equal to W.

http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/electric/wh-to-watt.htm
http://askville.amazon.com/Watt-Volt-Amper/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=3916116

Anyway, you can't trust those power meters.