Traditional UPS vs New Power Banks
I just saw an ad in my feed for the a new Anker device and it looks like it could be used like a UPS. Today I’m using an APC unit I got from bestbuy about 4 years ago and I’m probably going to need to replace the batteries soon.
In the past, I’ve read that these new units may not react quick enough to outages or have high idle power usage.
Am I crazy for thinking my homelab should switch to something like this? https://www.ankersolix.com/s2000
* <10ms cutover
* Pure Sine Wave
* 2W standby or 6W active idle
* 2kWh
I’m not sure how I’d be able to have this trigger auto shutdowns for my two servers, but perhaps it’s less of a risk since I’d have more time to react manually. I could maybe also find a way to flag a device going offline on the network (light light bulbs) and then have that tell HomeAsisstant to send commands to shut down my servers.
Thanks for your thoughts/feedback.