Bizarre/Interesting Tech on Crowdfunding Platforms: Massive BLUETTI 5100 Wh UPS!

[Mussels]

Since you asked (ahah), my 9900K @5Ghz with a Strix 3090 is constantly pulling between 180W and 220W from the wall when **idle**, so people can do the math.

With a 2200VA SMT2200 APC UPS supporting it (just the PC tower plus some minor external USB peripherals, as the dual 4K monitors are on another 2200VA UPS - long story) I get between 2 and 2 hours and 50 minutes runtime.

Normally more than enough to ride **most** blackouts, unless I try to play a game during one (when playing Doom Eternal at 4K 120FPS the system pulls about 600W from the wall).

Each 2200VA APC unit weights around 50 Kg, so wheels would actually be a very, very, welcome addition to them when dusting under the table. Damn you, APC!

For comparison, a 5800x with PBO on and a 3090 while mining (monitor included - the 475W is dual monitor while gaming and mining)

 

[Dux]

This is great. Tesla battery packs are more expensive than this and not meant to be portable. I have portable gas generator in my vacation house. But the noise it makes is annoying. Why not get this silent portable UPS that i can charge with solar?

 

[R-T-B]

Think that might be very useful in close future. Especially in EU, once more stupid countries move from regular sources of electricity to alternative ones and grid will be overloaded or blackout every day.

You're confusing the EU with natural gas powered texas.

 

[Nihilus]

If you really want to live "off the grid", get a 3000w dual fuel inverter hooked up to a huge propane tank. Maybe having something like this or smaller for night time just to power a few lights and refrigerator so you are not running the inverter generator 24/7.

Trying to run your home just off of this and solar panels would not be optimal unless you have consistent sunlight and are living VERY minimalistic.

 

[Jism]

dam i did not know that
ive always wanted a ups to ease my computer when power goes poof cause i own a ps3 (it dies if it losses power most the time)
but never got around to it but this thing could full on keep the computer gaming when the power goes out

Then the UPS you had was "too small". I have a 2000VA UPS here and it's capable of running a toaster at 1000W easily for a few minutes. A computer would be around 300 ~ 500W which is half of a toaster and thus increasing the uptime that UPS can deliver. You can tweak it yourself by adding battery's with a greater capacity as well.

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

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Then the UPS you had was "too small". I have a 2000VA UPS here and it's capable of running a toaster at 1000W easily for a few minutes. A computer would be around 300 ~ 500W which is half of a toaster and thus increasing the uptime that UPS can deliver. You can tweak it yourself by adding battery's with a greater capacity as well.

e never had one
and i meant a couple of hours

 

[Jism]

You can always extend the lifetime of a UPS by simply increasing the amount of battery's (current/watts an hour). However the home made office kind of UPS's are not designed to constantly run. I had issues myself in running a small UPS with a high load. The transformer pretty much got hot.

 

[Mescalamba]

You're confusing the EU with natural gas powered texas.

EU has countries like Germany.

Germany lives in illusion that they can be completely carbon free and stop everything thats not "green" energy, including nuclear options. Sure they can. And in same time, they can also use only vehicles powered by electricity. I mean, what can go wrong..

What will happen is that they will do that and then buy electricity from less green sources (and ofc nuclear sources) from their neighbours. A tiny problem there is that a) electricity price will mimic price of BTC and b) power grids wont be able to survive it. Which will lead probably to end of civilization or at least industry and normal life in Germany.

 

[windwhirl]

EU has countries like Germany.

Germany lives in illusion that they can be completely carbon free and stop everything thats not "green" energy, including nuclear options. Sure they can. And in same time, they can also use only vehicles powered by electricity. I mean, what can go wrong..

What will happen is that they will do that and then buy electricity from less green sources (and ofc nuclear sources) from their neighbours. A tiny problem there is that a) electricity price will mimic price of BTC and b) power grids wont be able to survive it. Which will lead probably to end of civilization or at least industry and normal life in Germany.

Nuclear as far as I understand is clean energy...? Granted, it has the Chernobyl risk and you have to handle it with care, but, it's clean.

Nevermind, it has the waste problem

 

[R-T-B]

EU has countries like Germany.

Germany lives in illusion that they can be completely carbon free and stop everything thats not "green" energy, including nuclear options. Sure they can. And in same time, they can also use only vehicles powered by electricity. I mean, what can go wrong..

What will happen is that they will do that and then buy electricity from less green sources (and ofc nuclear sources) from their neighbours. A tiny problem there is that a) electricity price will mimic price of BTC and b) power grids wont be able to survive it. Which will lead probably to end of civilization or at least industry and normal life in Germany.

I don't share your apocalyptic apraisel of green energy, but then I do consider nuclear a "green" option so that does open a lot more doors.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I don't share your apocalyptic apraisel of green energy, but then I do consider nuclear a "green" option so that does open a lot more doors.

I consider nuclear a partial green measure, mostly due to it toxic and water waste.

 

[Mescalamba]

Meh, its not my view, just our comrades from Germany.

I have nothin against nuclear energy, cause if done properly its definitely one of cleaner energies. Not many know, I guess, but nuclear fuel can be recycled (into another fuel, just needs specific way of handling and reactors). France does that, for example.

Thing is, at this moment its only energy that can be used in big scale without having too severe results on nature. Thus its green(ish).

Also only way to sustain that idea of "green" everything. Which is in general BS, cause while it can be done, it cant be done way EU wants it to do.

Only result from EU will be most likely complete economical collapse of countries participating and EU itself. And most likely pretty nasty one as they will up the propaganda. Wont be surprised if it will remind Soviet union in many ways sooner than later (it already does in some aspects).

 

[R-T-B]

I consider nuclear a partial green measure, mostly due to it toxic and water waste.

Depends on the implementation really, but yes, that is the primary achiles heel.

And I do not agree that green policies certainly lead to economic collapse, but we are OT as is.

 

[Mussels]

I consider nuclear a partial green measure, mostly due to it toxic and water waste.

None of our power generation techniques are green yet, only greenER

Nuclear creates waste, which is an issue... but at least its contained and not vented into the atmosphere

solar/wind have toxic fun during the manufacturing and mining processes, so we just dont have any perfect solutions yet