Hi all, What is UPS input load and how can that affect the power draw of devices plugged into it?
Context: I have an Eaton UPS. Into it I plugged TP Link smart plug to measure how much my homelab draws (1 truenas server, 1 rpi and a switch). These draw about ~29 W when under low to medium load. Almost every day (different time) for couple of hours, however, the plug measure about 6-7 Watts more (~36 W). I have checked both linux devices and they were doing basically nothing. Then I looked into TrueNAS monitoring and noticed that the start and end of each event is exactly the same time when UPS input load is increased from 0 % to ~6 %.
What is this UPS input load and how is it possible it affects measurements by a device that is plugged into it (the UPS) - NOT the other way around? Thank you
Truly nothing. I haven’t set snapshots yet, I have TrueCloud backup but thats at midnignt. I have checked htop and there is virtually zero activity (same as when the power draw is 29 W). I have only two apps on truenas and they also didn’t do any indexing or anything). As mentioned above the only difference that I spotted so far is the ups input load and the times of event start/end match perfectly in all cases (but then again UPS is powering the tp plug and on, not the other way around).