Posted by Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com on August 11, 2004, 5:04 pm
Have about 10 of them, laying around at the warehouse. I'm wondering if
someone was successful in making a UPS (or its inner circuitry to that
matter) some sort of light-duty inverter when hooked up to a solar panel.
Don't have a 7.2V panel to try, so maybe someone can share their
experience.
Thanks!
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Posted by nospam.clare.nce on August 11, 2004, 5:10 pm
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:04:16 GMT,
info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com (Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com))
wrote:
>Have about 10 of them, laying around at the warehouse. I'm wondering if
>someone was successful in making a UPS (or its inner circuitry to that
>matter) some sort of light-duty inverter when hooked up to a solar panel.
>Don't have a 7.2V panel to try, so maybe someone can share their
>experience.
>Thanks!
I have used a CHEAP (Upsonic 350) UPS as an inverter for a couple of
years, just in my van to allow running the laptop, charging up the
Camcoeder, running soldering iron, etc.
It worked better as an inverter than it did as a UPS, but for an old
UPSonic, that's not saying a lot. The Upsonic, by the way, uses a 12
volt battery.
I cought a low cost inverter and threw away yhe old UPS this spring.
Posted by Dmitri\(Cabling-Design.com\) on August 16, 2004, 5:05 pm
Thanks for your post!
I guess, I will give one of them a try. I have supposedly good quality APC
units, 200 to 250 VAs, they use 7.2V batteries. Batteries seem to die first,
so it looks like the unit themselves are still fine. I don't really see any
drawback of running them continuously at about 25% load to prevent
overheating as they originally were designed to run for only 20 minutes or
less as inverters. If I seem to be missing something important, any
suggestion posted here will be greatly appreciated.
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> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:04:16 GMT,
> info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com (Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com))
> wrote:
> >Have about 10 of them, laying around at the warehouse. I'm wondering if
> >someone was successful in making a UPS (or its inner circuitry to that
> >matter) some sort of light-duty inverter when hooked up to a solar panel.
> >Don't have a 7.2V panel to try, so maybe someone can share their
> >experience.
> >Thanks!
> I have used a CHEAP (Upsonic 350) UPS as an inverter for a couple of
> years, just in my van to allow running the laptop, charging up the
> Camcoeder, running soldering iron, etc.
> It worked better as an inverter than it did as a UPS, but for an old
> UPSonic, that's not saying a lot. The Upsonic, by the way, uses a 12
> volt battery.
> I cought a low cost inverter and threw away yhe old UPS this spring.
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>someone was successful in making a UPS (or its inner circuitry to that
>matter) some sort of light-duty inverter when hooked up to a solar panel.
>Don't have a 7.2V panel to try, so maybe someone can share their
>experience.
>Thanks!