Which UPS?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 11 14:31:31 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Molly Tournquist wrote:
> Ewww, UPSes. That's just weird, putting batteries for DC devices at the AC stage. (Probably very reassuring over rigging up a DIY solution though.)
> 
> On the other hand, DC UPSes should naturally be happening for raspberry pi.

Yes, using a UPS to generate AC just to convert it back to DC is very
very stupid.  Yet everyone (almost) keeps doing it.

It would be much more sane to have the UPS convert AC to DC, store it
and then feed DC to the computer.

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