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Date: August 25, 2023
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We bought the unit to use it for power outages. It requires some minor assembly, which took 5 minutes. it is compact, so it stores easily, and the electric/remote start is a really nice feature. Also like the dual fuel source!
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Cool Video. Not sure if you're still making videos but would love to see an update video to something like this.
Great, informative video. Thank you! While you were exploring the board, did you notice if there might be a way to make the UPS use the battery/solar power as the Main, and the wall power as the backup?
Battery tender is a brand name of the 12v "pigtail" quick disconnect. Amazon sells these by the dozen and some even have a mountable female you can screw/affix to the UPS case instead of having a lose paired wire through a hole. I bought a pair of two mountable sets (both sides of the connection, with one side that can be mounted) that I installed on my dual WEN 3800W generators to trickle charge the starting battery as needed. Under $10 for the two sets.
UPS… large amount of power for shirt amount of time… all dependent upon the battery size (small form factor is desirable in a UPS therefore, minimum sized battery used to do the job)
Many people toss their UPS when the battery fails. You mentioned something about taking the battery from your boat? Are you throwing that out (and can I have it? 😉
Thanks man. Helpful
Genius mate absolutely love it 👍
Thank you for the video. But I have a question. Why do you need an inverter before the battery?
Don't you need just DC?
And the UPS doesn't have an inverter inside?
Could you show or explain how you connect you solar panel to the usp?
Did the ups have enough amps to start the refrigerator motor?
Great concept video! Ill be on the lookout for these now! >:)
My left ear really enjoyed this
This was a very informative video, I enjoyed it very much, you have help me figure some things up n have a better understanding on how this works. Thank you!!.
Make sure they are pure sinewave inverters if you plan to run anything with an electric 110 volt motor in it including aircondioners, fridges, power tools and fans… electronics and lights work fine on modified sinewaves which these units are mostly and why the cost way less than the more expensive units your trying to avoid… it can be done like I do but its not as easy as you would like it to be… nothing worse than burning your house down because of a few overlooked problems…
may be just use the bigger battery be better
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The APC 1500 series are 24 volts… You need 2x 12 AGM batteries.,,,
The real issue is amps… You need around 10 amp per 12 volt battery. To recharge them fast enough or they sulfate. Why you need an external battery charger. Other then the built in ones the UPS comes with…Why I installed a 200 watt solar panel and a charge controller. To keep the 2x 200 @ah batteries charged….
And this thing is not portable. As it weights 150lbs…
The problem with the cheap UPS products is that they often don't produce clean power that is a necessity for modern electronics. To compare apples to apples here you have to look for a UPS that has online double conversion capability. When you compare the starting price for these products you will see the prices are about the same as a portable power station. Each type of device is really built for almost opposite jobs as is stated in the video (long run time vs. short runtime) and it really comes down to trusting sensitive electronics to home brew projects. A cool idea especially if you are powering things like lights or small heaters, etc. but probably best to stick to portable power stations (which have gotten more powerful and cheaper) for the electronics.
Nice movie. However you should take instructions from Avasva if you want to learn how to make it easily.
I just got a pair of this for free and I'm looking to do this
At what time does he start telling us how to convert Ups to solar generator?
Use a led bulb -3 watt ( Homelek) , lots of light for a very low load .
If you splice in the battery, then why do you need the portable inverter anymore?
the sound…. makes me want to stick forks in my left ear…good info tho
Apc is 24 volt not 12
Generator equals keeping up with demands & a ups with supplemental solar panels means climate temp & cloudy skies will compromise charging. To make this a real generator to provide the uninterrupted power you will need approximately 3000 SQ ft off solar panels.
I have a Smart-UPS 750 that I've never used, I was thinking of selling it, I didn't think you could attach a solar cell to them though.
To sell or not to sell,… the only issue with selling on eBay is the weight of these UPS machines.
how did you compensate for the two types of batteries connected togther? did you do in series or parallel
I was doing paper and pen for mapping out something like this on a much larger scale. If I wanted to use solar power as the main source of power. Running through the inverter through the ups. from my understanding of the ups. the ups will charge and allow the power from the solar source to run through to a "PC". the power from the solar fails. the ups keep the same flow for a short amount of time with its own charge. Could I in theory just unplug the ups from the inventor and plug it into a home outlet if available?
In one ear, well the other heard nothing.
Two things to look at.
1 if its modified or pure sine wave. Need to know your needs.
2 what voltage the ups needs. Not all are 12v.
Just for everyone's knowledge
Very nice. Looking into this type of system for running my well pump in power outages.
Did you disable the alarm system that activates once you have zero AC input and you are only drawing on the battery backup power? That was a hindrance to me during my first iteration with an APC since the alarm was integrated. If you did disable can you do a short vid to cover the proper way to disable. Thanks and great job on your vids.
Could we please stop calling them solar generators?
So you can pretty much us this method to power a small workshop shed to power lights and power tools if you have a larger scale, am I right?
You mentioned running a refrigerator, those use an ac motor which is not good to run off modified sine wave which these ups deliver
this guy looks like chuck Norris,
I like this project.But i wish to ask,is it possible to repaplace the led acid battery with a car battery.Would it work efficiently?
Really good stuff. I work for a biomed company and ups units are always being disposed of. Might have to try this. Hope to see your thermal charger setup soon.
seria posible incluir el modo traduccion en su video, es un tema interesante
Great video. Have a xs 1500 and was wondering if this can be done. Thank you!
I have an old APC Symmetra 10KV unit with extended run module that I was hoping to use for a solar array, I had hoped to see someone use one for this purpose..
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