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This is absolutely the correct information. I sold UPSs for years and the general consensus is that if you want more than 5 to 10 minutes of power, then you want to go with an actual generator solution
Saying that, UPSs tend to be used in industrial environments to keep machinery running until the generator starts up and can accept the load.
And in the case of a 3d printer after so many seconds of now power what id use one for would be to cut off the bed and hotend, list the head and then run the part cooling fan full blast until power went out.
The print would be ruined but less likely to have heat creep and jams when the power goes out leaving the existing melted plastic to wick up into the heat break when the cooling fan goes out. And less likely, but technically possibly, the nozzle, still not sitting on one piece of plastic with enough heat to scorch or worse.
Yeah, I only care to keep the printer running for just a few seconds but thanks for the input
What sort of grid-tie systems are you thinking of?
I ask because I've been considering something like that and am finding nothing but things which have an internet connection back to the manufacturer. Some US states apparently prohibit charging batteries via the grid outside of certain scenarios. Abiding by that is fine, I'm not going to charge illegally. But I'd still like a device that is 100% not controlled remotely by some other party.
My Fronius Symo Gen 24 plus could run without a connection to the manufacturer and has local APIs for everything.
Thank you!
Computers and 3D printers use switch mode power supplies. They don't care if the inverter provides a square wave or a sine wave.