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| Malenko:
I mean..... if the price of the UPS pays for itself in the cost of saved prints, its a no brainer. I'm in the middle of redoing my adorable little server rack area (taking the servers off the wall mount and getting an actual rack for the basement) and I dropped the coin on 2 real rack mount UPSs (APC 2200s , $900+ EACH) to replace the standing APC one. The standing one will likely get repurposed, but I already have a BR1000G for my desktop. Sometimes hobbies arent cheap and you get what you pay for. |
| BadMouth:
I doubt it would pay for itself in saved prints. It's more about the hassle of starting a multi-day print over and the fact that I've already gone so far over budget building this thing. I have a 36 hour print that I want to start today, so I went ahead and bought this APC Pro 1000 for $110-$20 coupon code=$90. https://www.staples.com/apc-back-ups-pro-1000-va-ups-8-outlets-black-bx1000m-lm60/product_24414117 Thought I was going to have to pay double that for one with high enough wattage. In the end, trying to come up with schemes to get by with a $50 solution would end up costing way more time than the $40 saved. Thanks everyone for your input. |
| gamepimp:
I'm in the same predicament. I've got some long running projects I want to print on my 3D printer and should probably have a UPS to avoid any outages. Are those Staples coupons easy to come by? I tried Google and didn't find a code that works. Seems like $90 is a pretty good price for that unit... |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: gamepimp on June 28, 2021, 04:55:18 pm ---I'm in the same predicament. I've got some long running projects I want to print on my 3D printer and should probably have a UPS to avoid any outages. Are those Staples coupons easy to come by? I tried Google and didn't find a code that works. Seems like $90 is a pretty good price for that unit... --- End quote --- The one I used was from wired: https://www.wired.com/coupons/staples A smaller printer could get away with a smaller backup. I'm running this on a 350x350 Voron with a 110v heater on a 14" aluminum tooling plate. It pulled 540 watts coming up to temp and moving at the same time, but while printing it is only pulling 170-270 watts. |
| gamepimp:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on June 28, 2021, 05:27:41 pm ---The one I used was from wired: https://www.wired.com/coupons/staples A smaller printer could get away with a smaller backup. I'm running this on a 350x350 Voron with a 110v heater on a 14" aluminum tooling plate. It pulled 540 watts coming up to temp and moving at the same time, but while printing it is only pulling 170-270 watts. --- End quote --- Thanks for the info. Worked like a charm! :cheers: I've got a Creality CR10S Pro with a 300x300 aluminum bed. I did a quick Google search and it looks like it can use up to 500 watts when warming up. I connect to it using Octoprint on a PC. I will probably put that on there as well to make sure both stay up and running during an outage. Hopefully the UPS will cover both for a short time. |
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