RAWALPINDI: With the surge in demands of UPS, batteries, power inverters and generators in Ramazan due to loadshedding, their prices have also increased in the market.
A dealer of imported and local made UPS said the demand for the locally made UPS has almost doubled while the demand for the Chinese UPS is noticing downward trend, as it is costly while on the other hand, its repair charges are also high.
Other options are also being used by the citizens and the demand of inverters and gas generators has also increased considerably.
A generator dealer in Raja Bazaar said the past 15 days had brought a 50 percent increase in sales.
A dealer said that UPS were preferred over generators as the latter made a lot of noise adding that a powerful UPS set up could simultaneously operate computers, fans and lights.
Consumers complained that most of the UPS manufacturers were using silver wires in the transformers instead of the heavy-duty copper wire.
