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Budget Homelab UPS Recommendations? (Used or New) (leminal.space)

submitted 2 years ago by fenndev@leminal.space to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm running a rather small homelab and am hunting for a good UPS to help keep everything running smoothly. My top priorities are:

Just enough battery life to keep things running until they can be shut down
Compatible with open source software for monitoring and automated shutdown

Would I have better luck getting a used one and a new battery, or a brand new unit altogether? Anyone have one they don't need anymore, on that note? 👀

Thanks for the advice!

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Take a look at this list: https://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html

I use an older APC Back-UPS 500 to power my homelab and all network devices. So far it's saved me from 3 power outages, and can last about 30 minutes with a 50W power draw. It doesn't have data connections of its own (newer devices do), so I had to improvise with an ESP32 board that reports if it detects a voltage on the beeper, plus some cron jobs on Proxmox.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

This is the real answer - get something that NUT supports