Friendly reminder to buy a UPS.You don't want to lose all your data in a critical moment, do you?
>>106820096I DO, actually.ACCELERATE
>>106820096this is so 2k...
>>106820096Why buy a UPS when you can just buy one of these and plug your important stuff to it? They have way more battery than a UPS.
>>106820177Looks like a normal UPS to me. What's the catch?
>>106820096COW filesystem with RAID and backups. I'm good thank you.
>>106820177>Ankerlol, fuck offhttps://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Manufactured-by-Anker-Innovations-1
>>106820226That's because it is a giant UPS.
>>106820649Statistically, your laptop or home pc is more likely to catch fire than a battery bank. And you posted a link to a portable battery bank, not a battery bank.
>>106820096>lose all your datawhy not? ms edge just nuked all of my passwords
>>106820881>not using keepasXClol wut r u like
>>106820831>Statistically, your laptop or home pc is more likely to catch fire than a battery bank.Statistically, you're full of shit.
>>106820900>keepasXCchecked and thnxi needed to reset them all, anyway. 99% were the same compromised pw, lol
If everything I owned went up in flames I would probably just sigh and get back to it
The battery on my UPS just died yesterday and the damn thing started screaming like it was being slaughtered. The fucking thing can't even be muted for some reason. But it's a once every few years type of thing so not a huge issue.
>>106820909Look it up.
>>106820177You don't need a big battery.Just enough to finish any running tasks and shut down gracefully.Especially when you have a NAS that doesn't consume much power and can be configured to power itself down automatically after losing mains power for five minutes or so.
Don't cheap out and get one that produces proper sine wave output for your electronics.
>>106820946It was probably designed for use in a large office where normally nobody hangs around in the server room.Has to be loud and annoying enough that someone will complain about it so the IT guy gets called in.
>>106822151Not the way it works, pussytits.
>>106820177Doesn't switch to battery fast enough, no AVR / line interactive feature.
>>106822151>pc catches firefarts smoke out the back, dies >power station catches fire6 ft gout of flame shoots out the topcannot be extinguished by normal means
>>106820177That's for when the UPS isn't enough or glamping. You use a UPS to protect from brownouts and in blackouts to give your computer time to shut down properly. You break a power station out when the power stays out or when you're going somewhere you know won't have power
This is my UPSAnyone have any bigger than 20kWh?
Get a laptop if you are worried of power outages
>>106822277I understand why it does it, it's just annoying. At least this time it didn't happen in the middle of the night.
>>106820946open it up and stab the speaker with a screwdriver
>>106820177I'm thinking of getting one, this makes UPS obsolete but my country isn't at turdie status yet. We rarely get power outages Might be a good investment in case of a shtf scenario dough because it can be charged with a 250w solar panel
>>106823577If the power goes out, I can just shut off my computre remotely with a battery bank and my security cameras can stay on a little longer until I get home from work
>>106823711Shit looks expensive. How much did that thing run ya?
>>106820096>buy UPS>house burns downDo you not read the news? >>106807695
>>106820096>You don't want to lose all your data in a critical momentUnlikely in modern filesystemsThat said, it's still worth it just to not need to reopen everything if power dips>>106820946If you can't turn it off, just remove the buzzer. Mine has indicator lights as well so I still know if the battery dies.
>>106825455>>106826706Won't be able to disable the speaker since it's hidden in a cabinet behind a lot of stuff. It's not a big deal every couple years. At least it didn't start screaming in the middle of the night this time.
>>106820096laptop masterrace doesn't have this problem
>>106820096I already have two of them. They're life-savers.
>>106820096>UPSI got a used Cyberpower 2U UPS for cheap, only $140 on ebay (including shipping which must have been like, $50) with the functionality description being "it can supply power"Obviously something is fucked but I bet I can fix it. So this heavy fucker comes in, and it has a $400 remote management card installed in the expansion slot. Nice. Now lets get these batteries out and... they are swollen and so stuck that the tray doesnt come out. I pop the top off (8 screws) and there aint no way to get the 4 swollen SLA batteries out without some dirty work. I put on some disposable rubber gloves, get my carpenters hammer and chisel and go to down on these batteries, putting the contents in a plastic bag (I did this in my garage btw, not in the house). It took about 20 min or so and I had brand new LiFePO4 HMS batteries to put in and... it works great. I updated the firmware on the network management card and there is absolutely nothing to complain about aside from the card using an older key algorithm despite the upgrade. I have yet to move on to the deployment stage, but I'm currently in the testing stage going on day 3 and no issues so far
>>1068256027800AUD.Government subsidising them by 30%. 2 of the 3 house circuits are connected to the backup on it.The primary purpose of it is to just reduce my electricity bills by soaking up the excess solar. Inverter has a max of 5kW.
>>106827041That's cheaper than I thought.People have no problem buying multiple flagship phones but call this expensive and a waste of money, but this will actually help you save money and safe from the grid for 20+ years.
>>106827281Pretty much. With my current power bills I estimate a 5-6y ROI, with the expected lifetime being 20.I expect to replace my panels in about 5 years though and hopefully by then Alpha have brought out a new 10kW hybrid inverter so I can keep reusing the existing batteries.It's not the type of battery that gives you complete independence (Sigenergy with a gateway for that), but insulates you from the issues that the renewables push will create.And to keep on topic, 20ms switchover with a pure sine wave helps.
My entire house is backed up by batteries and can run for around a day if fully charged, altough all power outages I've had in this house in the last decade were caused by me and not the grid lol.
>>106826862>lifepo in sla ups They have different charge cutoff points. You're going to end up replacing those sooner than you'd like, and they won't hit full capacity.
>>106826545Residential SLA UPS don't have much to burn. You might get a hydrogen flash in extreme failure cases, but that's unlikely to get anything outside hot enough to catch fire.
I bought two cyberpower ups a decade ago and one broke irreparably last year. Do they just break after awhile or did I get unlucky? I don't want to buy more if they're going to keep breaking.
>>106828386>>lifepo in sla ups >They have different charge cutoff points. You're going to end up replacing those sooner than you'd likeYou must have missed the part where I said "LiFePO4 HMS" instead of just "LiFePO4"
>>106828734>Do they just break after awhile or did I get unlucky?Let me guess, you bought the $75 special sale ones a decade ago.Regardless, they are a decade old of likely continuous use, sometimes the caps and electronics in them die.How many batteries did you go through replacing in them in that time period?
>>106820106>anon accelerates into a wall and dies
>>106828734Basically everything in them is sacrificial / finite life except the controller board, and it's all interacting with gross power. I replace them after 10 years as a matter of course, but where I live is rough duty for UPS.
>>106820096Why are all of these using 20 year old tech? Isn't there something newer that's more efficient?
>>106828734Some of them kinda suck, especially recent cost-cut ones.My main UPS is from 1998 and still going strong. Only needs the batteries replaced once every several years.
>>106830551What is there to change? They're pretty dumb devices.Only thing is maybe switching from lead acid to LiFePO4 for longer battery life, but you could just as easily use a bigger lead acid battery. They don't need to be moved regularly so the extra weight doesn't matter.
>>106830551More efficient how? UPS' only job is to track line voltage, pick up power cuts within 6ms, and then provide backup power until the generator can start up or the user has time to shut down. 20yo tech is more than sufficient for that.
What about muh pure sine wave? Isn't that important? I was told that was important.
I have a good UPS and sometimes pc still reset when power goes out for like a second only
>>106833355Doesn't sound like a good UPS. My shitty UPS has an issue where plugging something into one of its USB ports causes power to drop on all the USB ports. Cyberpower, I'm gonna check what model it is.
>>106820096It's bloat, modern HDDs and SSDs and any component in a PC can handle power loss just fine without any issues
>>106833259Only in 240V regions. It doesn't really make a price difference any more of you're buying something big enough to run a serious desktop PC.
>>106826862Cute boy>>106820096Not a problem for laptop chads
>>106833355That's a cheap shit UPS. Good UPS keeps the transformer online so it can dump charge in the fractional second between when the power cuts and when the relay kicks over to battery.>>106833527They've been saying that since the late 80s and keep proving themselves wrong.
>>106820649I bought a $20 recalled battery bank, they sent me a $60 one for freehonestly pretty easy recall process too>>106831496I think lead acid is a better choice for UPS since they're going to sit at full charge basically all the time, which would degrade a LiPO
>>10682009690% of data hoarded is never accessed ever again. Source: I made it the fuck up but it's true.
>>106820177I want to plug my whole house into one of these, but the 240v ones are like 5x the cost. Is there a way to take two of these and and plug each leg into one? How could you manage the phases?
>>106820177Can i power my desktop with this?
>>106820226>>106820177The catch is that you need to choose specific unit cause what you really want is UPS mode that will have sub 10ms latency ideally for switchover. <20 ms might work as well, but might cause some sensitive device to falter. If you look at the description/feature set, they list that feature. So you should check. On top of that, there maybe some peak/sustained watt hour restrictions on these lithium power stations. So calculate the watt needed and give proper buffer
>>106833713Don't bother. You'd start a fire anyway.
>>106833797There's a reason they always bill them as solar generators or power stations instead of super UPS. They're not UPS.
