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10-Outlet APC BX1500M 1500 VA / 900W Battery Back-UPS

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Amazon has 10-Outlet APC BX1500M 1500 VA / 900W Battery Back-UPS for $144.99. Shipping is free.

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Features:
  • 10 Outlets (NEMA 5-15R): 5 surge protector with battery backup; 5 outlets with Surge Protection Only
  • Boost Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR): instantly corrects low/high voltage fluctuations without discharging the battery, and is Active PFC compatible
  • Replaceable Battery: Easily replace the battery back up with a genuine APC replacement battery, model APCRBC124 (sold separately)
  • 1 GB network dataline protection, 6' Power Cord, right-angle 3-prong wall plug (NEMA 5-15P), and free Windows PC power-management software (Mac OS uses native "Energy Saver" Settings)

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Amazon has 10-Outlet APC BX1500M 1500 VA / 900W Battery Back-UPS for $144.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member phoinix for finding this deal.

Features:
  • 10 Outlets (NEMA 5-15R): 5 surge protector with battery backup; 5 outlets with Surge Protection Only
  • Boost Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR): instantly corrects low/high voltage fluctuations without discharging the battery, and is Active PFC compatible
  • Replaceable Battery: Easily replace the battery back up with a genuine APC replacement battery, model APCRBC124 (sold separately)
  • 1 GB network dataline protection, 6' Power Cord, right-angle 3-prong wall plug (NEMA 5-15P), and free Windows PC power-management software (Mac OS uses native "Energy Saver" Settings)

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
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    • Rating of 4.6 from over 11,500 Amazon customer reviews.
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Steelgaze
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Disregard the previous comment about requiring a pure sine wave for computers. Computers work fine with modified or simulated sine waves. You only really are required to have a pure sine wave for things like medical devices or things that are very sensitive to the current.

Things like speakers could 'buzz' or the picture on the computer monitor can look fuzzy if it switches to to the backup and your power goes out, but it's not the end of the world. IMO you have other things to worry about than listening to your home entertainment system if the power is out.

The sine wave stuff only comes into play when you are on the battery backup power. The sine wave you get while getting power from the wall will be whatever/however clean your power company provides.. which I assume for most people you will not be on the power backup for 99.99% of the time. If you need a UPS, I wouldn't skip out on this just because it isn't a pure sine wave.


From a quick search, this is a good deal as with other APC units they require proprietary batteries, but this one you can use generics to replace the batteries when they go bad in a few years.
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Bruh, EVERYTHING has that. Batteries have lead, that's why it's on there.

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Quote from GlenC2172 :
Completely wrong. I've been in the computer industry for over 30 years. Higher end systems using Active PFC PSU should only use Pure sine wave UPS. Simulated sine wave clips the wave form and cause aberrant behavior under load. I solve many consumer clients issues by using the proper UPS. Prior to starting my pc business I was supervisor for electronics manufacturer where we made power supplies and transformers for the military and prior to that I maintained multiple FCC licenses and studied electrical circuit design. urlhasbeenblockedrded music sounds different from analog. Same principle clipped wave form. Does your 10 year old Dell Inspiron need it? No. That $2000-$5000 gaming rig you saved for? Yup..sure does. I appreciate the controversy, with any luck people in my area will listen to you and I'll get paid to "fix" the weird issues they are having.
My brothers and I built more than 40 systems since 486 was out. Do we need pure cosine directive wave UPS? Hell no. BS
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WTF are you smoking?

Don't smoke crack kids.
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chefp
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Quote from Steelgaze :
That's a fairly bad assumption. SLA batteries can swap instantly to a 700+ watt load as the power is cut. In the same form factor a LiFePO4 will have maybe a max discharge of 150-200 watt load before circuit protection kicks in. That means if a computer is essentially not idle when the power/brown out happens, your whole UPS will cut out due to over watt protection which defeats the purpose of having a UPS in the first place.

Lifepo4 the size of car batteries and larger will have the instantaneous wattage able to handle a 600-800 watt load like an SLA, but the size of the SLA and lifepo4 are going to be drastically different.
You're sadly misinformed. LFP can discharge up to 5C continuous without significant damage. For a 20Ah battery, that's 100A current. At 12v that's 1200W max continuous. 20Ah LFP batteries are tiny and light. 30-40Ah can easily be fit into a UPS, further increasing the max power or reducing the strain on the battery by limiting output current to 3C. Leads aren't good at sustained current output, in fact they're terrible at it. The only reason they're used in cars is low cost and relatively high peak, short-duration current for the price.

I don't know where you're getting your misinformation from. Lots of data sheets on LFP on the internet that have been tested over millions of cycles cumulatively. LFP is a well known quantity.
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Saw this while checking out

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Will wait and see if Costco will have CyberPower again on sale.
That's going to be just about everything, if you are concerned about that I would wear gloves everything you touch anything especially driving.
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Quote from chefp :
You're sadly misinformed. LFP can discharge up to 5C continuous without significant damage. For a 20Ah battery, that's 100A current. At 12v that's 1200W max continuous. 20Ah LFP batteries are tiny and light. 30-40Ah can easily be fit into a UPS, further increasing the max power or reducing the strain on the battery by limiting output current to 3C. Leads aren't good at sustained current output, in fact they're terrible at it. The only reason they're used in cars is low cost and relatively high peak, short-duration current for the price.

I don't know where you're getting your misinformation from. Lots of data sheets on LFP on the internet that have been tested over millions of cycles cumulatively. LFP is a well known quantity.
Feel free to link me a pair for my next replacement then. I looked but couldnt find anything that fit the requirement.

Remember they have to be 12 volt.
10cm x 15cm x 6.5 cm. Can be either F1 or F2 terminals.
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chefp
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Quote from Steelgaze :
Feel free to link me a pair for my next replacement then. I looked but couldnt find anything that fit the requirement.

Remember they have to be 12 volt.
10cm x 15cm x 6.5 cm. Can be either F1 or F2 terminals.
They're all over Amazom in all shapes & sizes.
https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Li...B097BRKCQP

Yes they work with lead chargers as long as the charge cycle doesn't do the plate cleaning voltage at 15v. The consumer UPS's I've come across don't do that. Drop in replacement in UPS's
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Quote from chefp :
They're all over Amazom in all shapes & sizes.
https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Li...B097BRKCQP

Yes they work with lead chargers as long as the charge cycle doesn't do the plate cleaning voltage at 15v. The consumer UPS's I've come across don't do that. Drop in replacement in UPS's
Read the specs. The one you linked has over current protection that kicks in at 120 watts. It wouldn't be able to support a 300+ watt load.
Last edited by Steelgaze March 23, 2023 at 03:42 AM.
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chefp
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Quote from Steelgaze :
Read the specs. The one you linked has over current protection that kicks in at 120 watts. It wouldn't be able to support a 300+ watt load.
There are multiple capacities in that link which support higher wattage. Look around there are plenty other choices. I've been using an LFP in my UPS for years
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Steelgaze
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Quote from chefp :
There are multiple capacities in that link which support higher wattage. Look around there are plenty other choices. I've been using an LFP in my UPS for years
No there isnt and that is the point. I've already looked and I'm asking you to provide me those links. You need to show me something that can do at least 20A at 12v. The one you linked is half that.

I case you need the math the wattage is determined by 12.8v x amps. the highest in the link you provided gets a little over 200 watts which in a series will max out at 400 watt load. it still isn't enough for a computer and other things running which you start needing at least 20 to 30 amps to stop it doing a a hard shutoff in 20-30 seconds due to over current protection.
Last edited by Steelgaze March 23, 2023 at 09:17 AM.
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chefp
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Quote from Steelgaze :
You need to show me something that
Wow you're lazy. Do your own homework
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Steelgaze
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Quote from chefp :
Wow you're lazy. Do your own homework
So to clarify I already said I looked and didn't find any. You made a claim that they exist and easily obtainable, but you aren't going to tell me where they are and to 'keep looking'?

Great way to prove your claim.

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