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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/ModestMustang on 2025-07-29 13:48:05+00:00.
I live in an area where power outages are pretty rare but, I decided to get a UPS for my network equipment, NAS, and mini pc proxmox cluster. I’ve got it physically deployed and over the weekend set up NUT server but didn’t get the time to set up the NUT clients. Early this morning the power went out and my gf woke me up about 25 minutes after it went off. I scrambled to grab my phone and ssh into my equipment to safely shut it down. I was successfully able to shut everything down and just when I got out of bed to physically turn off the UPS, it ran out of juice and powered off.
I was honestly shocked it was able to power 2 mini pcs, a pi4, a 4 bay NAS, my poe switches and 3 APs for about 30 minutes before it shut down with 5% battery left. It’s only an Amazon basics 450w unit that I got for $60 but it far exceeded my expectations. Now I need to finish setting up the NUT clients so I don’t have to scramble with terminus at 4am lol
Also it’s times like these that I appreciate when the universe makes a purchase decision worth it. Even my gf was impressed that wifi was still working while the power out.
Anyone else have a success story from a new equipment addition or a sign reminding you to finish a project?