I have a six unit watch winder that I am very happy with. There is one problem, however. The electrical power in my area has frequent momentary disruptions. Well, since the winder has an electronic control, a power interruption resets all the dials to zero revolutions per day. Last week I was away for two days and upon my return all my watches had stopped. I have thought about installing a Universal Power Supply but have been concerned about having that unit next to my bed (where the winder is). Does anyone else have this issue? Any other suggestions?
If you are worried about the ups next to bed, just put the ups in any other place and plug the winder to it trough a large wire.
I was surprised to see how many people have asked this question on other forums. But no one had a better solution than to buy a UPS. I guess that is what I will do. Thanks for the responses.
OK, I'll bite, Install a wind generator, Install a solar roof unit, If you live near a mount stream, install a hydro generator (love these) if all else fails, forum a neighborhood Nuclear co-op.
So I picked up a UPS today at Best Buy. Similar to the one Foo2rama linked above. I was originally hesitant about using a UPS due to the frequent droning of the cooling fan on the UPS at my office. However, this little unit has no fan so it should operate silently. I installed the unit and re-set all my watches. We'll see how it works. Thanks for your replies everyone.
I have a UPS for my cable modem, Apple Time Capsule WiFi Router, and some network drives, so I have time to power down the network drives via Macbook if the power goes out, and maybe continue to surf the web for a little while on the Macbook. Never thought about using one for a watch winder. Some of my winders can run on battery or AC, but I never installed batteries because I was afraid they'd leak if I forgot about them and didn't touch them for a few years.
UPS works fine. We had a brief power blip yesterday and the watch winder/ups combo performed as expected.
