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7 hour AC mains power outage lead to 45 minutes of partial power delivery with dead desktop PC and gateway. How to protect in future?

amirm said:
If you have the budget, whole house battery solutions are getting very practical. We have a generator but it waits 30 seconds to warm up so am thinking of battery back up to cover that range. We have UPS units around the house for this 30 second coverage but their darn batteries keep dying, they beep constantly, etc.
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How are the prices? 15kWh battery is about 6k€ around here. Certainly not cheap but quite nice combined with solar.
 
Verig said:
How are the prices? 15kWh battery is about 6k€ around here. Certainly not cheap but quite nice combined with solar.
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sure, there's always a risk going chinese with that stuff, but, you can get it for at least 50% cheaper most of the time:
www.basengreen.com

48V 280ah 14.3KWh Wall Mounted LiFePO4 Battery Pack

The 48V 280AH battery provides efficient storage and uninterruptible power for home energy storage to power renewable energy systems, or off-grid installations.
www.basengreen.com
 
bloodshoteyed said:
sure, there's always a risk going chinese with that stuff, but, you can get it for at least 50% cheaper most of the time:
www.basengreen.com

48V 280ah 14.3KWh Wall Mounted LiFePO4 Battery Pack

The 48V 280AH battery provides efficient storage and uninterruptible power for home energy storage to power renewable energy systems, or off-grid installations.
www.basengreen.com
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This is unrelated to UPSs but the City of Vancouver has given a public warning not to use knock-off batteries and cheap imports due to fire issues with them.
 
that's one reason i'm looking strictly at lifepo4 for home use, sure it's lower power density but way lower fire risk also
 
Doodski said:
Good information. I am mostly concerned about spikes, surges, brown outs and lightning which when we do get it is pretty roudy. I too don't need extended time operation after the power fails.
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Spikes, surges, brown-outs, a UPS should help. Not much you can do about a direct lightning hit. We have a whole-house lightning protector, as well as whole-house surge protection (two different units), but a direct hit will find a way. That said, a strike that hit a tree fairly near the house did no damage inside, while a similar strike on the neighbor's lot did a lot of damage to them (without any sort of protection -- they have it now). It did take out our cable, after which they added an external lightning protector on the cable line.
 
DonH56 said:
Spikes, surges, brown-outs, a UPS should help. Not much you can do about a direct lightning hit. We have a whole-house lightning protector, as well as whole-house surge protection (two different units), but a direct hit will find a way. That said, a strike that hit a tree fairly near the house did no damage inside, while a similar strike on the neighbor's lot did a lot of damage to them (without any sort of protection -- they have it now). It did take out our cable, after which they added an external lightning protector on the cable line.
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OK. Good info. I cannot MOD the breaker panel. Sure be nice if something for lightning was available at the AC outlet side.
 
Interesting. No extended warranty on the UPS available. Replacement batteries are not stocked but available through amazon.ca for about CAN $145 for 2 and the no-name battery pack was like CAN $90 for 2.
 
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