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You have got to be goddamned kidding me. Literally this weekend I said to myself “time to get a UPS”.
I mean it depends on what you're used for a UPS is. The smaller ones can still be had on Amazon for under $100 and if you hurry you could still get that pricing. But by the sounds that those ones are going to be jumping way up in price for no reason because literally those are useless to anybody in the Enterprise level. Unless they're being used at a desktop level which they do tend to purchase pallets worth of but this is more along the lines of Enterprise server level UPS's.
Chech out what Bluetti offers. They're LFP portable batteries but with a UPS features. You'll want the elite versions though, all the others are noisy with the fan, which the elite series fixed. The tech is pretty new with these showing up in the home portable battery market, but they will last longer in both battery longevity and power during outage than the old SLA type ones. And if youre travelling / going somewhere and dont need the UPS active you can take it with you and be useful!
I actually have an ac180 for camping and using tools away from power. I kinda figured it was a bit of a waste as just a ups, and worried about killing the battery quickly.
Maybe get another dedicated one for the office where I need it..
Have you ever tried running a small coffee maker off of one of those? I've been trying to decide what power supply I'm replacing my battery system in my pop-up trailer with and I didn't want to go with anything that was too large or takes up too much space. But this looks like for price it's near perfect for my use case. The only thing I'm ever curious about is will it run my coffee maker in the morning. And what kind of charging are you using for it? Do you run solar off of it?
Ya, I don't think you really need that much as a UPS but if you ran the AC180 in UPS mode, it would turn the fan on every 15-20 minutes as the circuity in the battery is still powered by the battery, even though the power is fed to your gear from the wall power. That results in it slowly going to 99% and then charging, which is noisy on the non-elite models in a quiet room. These LFP models are good for like 3000 cycles though, so using it as UPS it'll still last a decade or longer with 80% capacity left over.
There's the Elite 30 which can be a nice little battery backup / be portable and isn't too much more expensive then the comprable SLA types that don't last long.
Thanks so much for the advice. I’ll look into it.