Oh, and you just buy them.  Amazon sells them, so do some places on eBay and there are specialty on-line stores out there that sell equipment like this.  Just do a search for "inverter charger" and you'll see.  One advantage of using a specialty store is that they can also probably sell you the harness needed to hook up your batteries along with dispensing advice that I don't even know someone might need.

On 4/24/2020 7:34 AM, Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC wrote:

You have the batteries and you want to acquire the rest of what makes a battery backup a battery backup.

It's called an "inverter charger"

On 4/23/2020 7:33 PM, Rob KC5RET via BVARC wrote:
Hello all,

I have an issue and I thought, hey, I'm a member now, I'll go to the brain trust that is BVARC.

I want a UPS for my home office.  I don't want to pay for a APC UPS.  I have a couple of gently used RV batteries that I've keeping on a NOCO Genius battery charger in maint mode.

is there a gadget I can buy, that will allow me to plug it into house power for power outage detection purposes, but let me use my own batteries for backup when the power goes out.

I'm sure MFJ has something like this, but I was thinking something of higher quality.

I am still working and do not have the soldering skills to make my own, so I would like to purchase something turnkey that is less than comparatively sized APC system.

Any suggestions?

73, Rob, KC5RET

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