UPS as a home power source

Ivork

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This has probably been asked before, but I don't have time to read throu all the posts:

I want to use a 800 watt pc ups to power a circuit in my lounge that has just a tv / hi-fi/a few decoders,vcr/ couple of lights etc.

Won't attempt the amp unless it was on at the time 'cause it won't withstand the caps sucking that initial charge.

I want to hook up a couple of big batteries instead of the miserable 10 amp alarm type job that comes built in and lasts maybe 10 minutes at max wattage.

I plan on useing a APC pc UPS not designed to run 2 - 4 hours. Ill add an extra fan to cool the heatsink for the trannies doing the prolonged driving, but my question is:

What happens when the power is restored and those couple of 100 amp batteries i connected together are almost dead and drawing like 40 amp a pop?

Pop to charging circuit? or will they happily trickle charge over the next week before next outage?

Someone *must* have done this by now - so what happened ?
 
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It depends very much on the way the UPS was designed. If it has current limiting on it's charger circuit, then it won't blow.

APC is a very decent make, so I'm fairly sure it should have a limiter built in.
 
Look at the apc xl series

They cost a small fortune.
The SUA750XLI is over R4000, while the spare batteries are over R3000 each!

Rather invest in an inverter or UPS that runs on external batteries.
 
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