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Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by sirmoveon on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:10AM (#44835005)
No, don't do it. I understand his thought process because they are both 12v batteries with more capacity, but car batteries are made for high burst of energy which a car engine ignition requires, whereas UPS batteries are made for slow drains. Also, these UPS are made for charging battery cells in a certain way, if you start to stack a bank of batteries of the same model in parallel hoping for more capacity, even then its a problem for the UPS's charger, they won't charge evenly and eventually becoming a problem.
Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by zdragnar on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:45PM (#44839682)
Marine deep cycle batteries might work better, but at some point I'm pretty sure lithium would be price competitive.
Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by bluGill on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:47PM (#44840322)
It isn't quite that bad. the batteries are close enough that it will work.

the real worry is these are already a fire hazzard and so something goes wrong insurance will blame the mod even if not at fault

Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by chatmasta on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:39PM (#44840851)
I like to keep my hardware competence sufficiently low so that I’m never cursed with the false confidence to even consider “drilling a hole in a UPS,” nevermind wiring it to a car battery in my closet…
Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by nancyminusone on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:05PM (#44841106)
You seem like the kind of guy who doesn't enjoy a nice sulfuric acid spill on the floor, haha
Re:Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers by chatmasta on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:08PM (#44841145)
I will mess with all kinds of hardware, especially mini PCs and routers.. I once had a few hundred iPhones in my closet… but I draw the line at anything that uses batteries or electricity in a non-standard way. If the wire can’t carry data, I’m not touching it.

Maybe it’s because when I was a kid, I fancied myself an experimenter, and I had a wire ripped off a lamp, and touched the two ends together…