Of note, if various online resources are to be believed, you can't just hack and extend the battery capacity for longer run-times as they likely aren't rated for the corresponding higher thermal load.
they're not cheap, but i've bought cheaper and that stuff costs even more in the end.
power electronics that are safe and reliable costs.
> you can't just hack and extend the battery capacity for longer run-times as they likely aren't rated for the corresponding higher thermal load.
thermal load... of batteries?
i'd expect you'd confuse the microcontroller in the UPS. more batteries will require longer to bring up to voltage than it expects, which implies something is wrong. further all of the time remaining estimations it presents will be wrong.
Thermals referred to the power electronics which do get hot. Yes certainly better to get equipment designed for it rather than risk burning down the house.
until you switch to external batteries, they keep increasing the inverter size, which is unnecessary for your use case.
you could also just buy chargers, batteries and inverters separately and wire them together.