Not only do I understand, I know that a UPS makes much more noise than a jump starter which is silent. Silent is what I prefer when sleeping.CapnLoki wrote:You must understand that the "alarm" is generally configurable.
It seems that you are which is strange since you brought up the idea of using it, then you sayCapnLoki wrote:I'm not debating any of the technical issues,
andCapnLoki wrote:For me the jump starters are a bad solution because they won't go a full night,
I have used a jump starter for full night and for more than one night. Certainly you already know that the health and size of the battery directly affect how long it will last at a given pressure. So I can only think that your battery was too small, not charged, or old and on its way out, all of which will also affect the duration of a UPS under a load during an outage. I have seen them fail within minutes.CapnLoki wrote: Actually all of these solutions are the same, differing in battery size and some configuration points; each is a reasonable solution for some.
I have several rather large UPSs and went with a jumpstarter with an 18ah battery which as mentioned lasted the nite and into the next nite. Depending on many things including the set pressure it would be wise to have more than one if you hope to last more than one day but the above UPS is not expected to last more than a couple hours. If that is acceptable then all is good. I would certainly give it a try before the power goes out to see how long it will last and how you like it (the noise of the inverter). Some have fans and many you can hear before they are under a load when the lights go out.
Personally, I am prepared for much more than that since even where the power doesn't go out often you can't be sure when it will be restored once it goes out.
On several occasions I was able to sleep thru (w/o interrupting my sleep) brief outages when using a jump starter. Then there were times when I would wake up as soon as the power went out. But I was able to go right back to sleep since there is nothing else to do when the power is out, so in that respect it is like using a UPS.
UPSs have the very same problems.CapnLoki wrote:The jump starters always seemed to be cheaply made with mixed reviews,