Hey all,
Building out my lab, I was going to get a rackmount UPS. The one I'm looking at is a Cyberpower OR1500LCDRM1U. It says it offers:
1500 VA, 900 W, 120 V
Do I understand correctly that all I need to do is find the Wattage rating for each of the components I want to plug in and add them up? My components right now are pretty light, only about 120 watts total. But soon I'm going to expand and build out a Nutanix CE cluster with 3 nodes and a rack of drives. I was looking at using some NUCs but they are each rated at 330W.
So that would mean even the NUCs by themselves would over-provision the UPS right? Then on top of that I would still need all the other equipment in the rack to be powered.
Am I understanding this correctly or is there something I'm missing?
My Cyberpower UPS started going to shit last year and I ended up replacing it with a LiFePO4 power station that advertised a switching time fast enough to use as a UPS. I spent about $630 for a power station that can handle 1800W for an appreciably longer runtime than the lead acid battery backups, essentially one kilowatt hour. So far so good. My only complaint is that the outlets are on the front, which isn't an ideal form factor for UPS duty. Plus, LiFePO4 is supposed to be good for ten years or so.
What did you choose?
Ecoflow DELTA 3 Plus