Your first 3 UPSes are lithium-ion. I am scared of lithium-ion in the apartment.
Your last URL is for LFP. Thanks! But it is for 110V (I need 220V), and 3kVA is 
too small for my needs.
Looks like I need to search again.

I would not agree that dependency on the quality of an additional BMS is a good 
thing. 
And additional BMS should cost additional money that could be big enough for 
5kVA.
It is for sure not an optimal solution.
Eduard
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From: Gary Sparkes <g...@kisaracorporation.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 11:27
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Cc: Vasilenko Eduard <vasilenko.edu...@huawei.com>
Subject: RE: [NANOG] Re: Small Capacity UPS

There are some of the big boys who are doing LFP - 

Eaton does so for example - a whole line of them.. 
https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/products/backup-power-ups-surge-it-power-distribution/backup-power-ups/lithium-ion-batteries-.html
 
Vertiv/Leibert - 
https://www.vertiv.com/en-us/solutions/learn-about/vertiv-lithium-ion-ups/
APC - https://www.apc.com/us/en/campaign/lithium-ion-ups.jsp
Even cyberpower - 
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/promotions/smart-app-sinewave-lithium-ups/

I recall shopping lithium UPSes over many, many years - some that weren't LFP 
at all, but even then, much higher density than LFP can provide. Also big name 
manufacturers at the times. I'm thinking back to say, 2015 maybe? NMC as 
mentioned, and yes, even in lipo types as well. 

The innovation is there, if you can afford it - it's still more expensive than 
SLA just on virtue of the cell costs, alone. Space savings may or may not be 
worth it to you, longevity argument may win the budget fight, it may not - 
sometimes spending $X every 2-3 years is a better option for cashflow reasons 
than spending $2*X for 5-8 years. 

Then again.... 

LFP support is a given in almost any UPS since you can have drop-in replacement 
cells. If it's a lead-acid UPS, it's a LFP UPS. No need to hack on a BMS unless 
you're building the entire UPS yourself - the drop-in replacement cells have 
them built in. LFP UPSes from the mainstreams like above may have the BMS 
system integrated into something other than the cells, but likely it's part of 
the entire battery module instead and swapped when you swap packs - so the 
fundamental UPS itself remains the same barring metering/reporting circuitry to 
talk to the BMS. 

Just swapping out my rackmount tripplites was 2x the cost for LFP cells to 
replace the SLA cells, and I only went from 9Ah per cell to 10Ah. Though, 
justifiably, I did not have to swap UPSes and should not have to swap batteries 
for another 8-10 years, plus a slightly extended runtime. So my ROI is 
approximately 4-5 years. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 2:31 AM
To: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>; North American Network Operators Group 
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Cc: Vasilenko Eduard <vasilenko.edu...@huawei.com>
Subject: [NANOG] Re: Small Capacity UPS

Thanks to many people for good references!

I hope you would agree that it is a clumsy patch to add BMS between the 
UPS/Inverter and the battery.
But we have no choice.

Why has the industry stopped innovating?
I recently searched for inverters and/or UPSes, specifically looking for LFP 
support - I have found nothing.
Why do we need to customize it ourselves?
I would not believe that product managers in APC (and many other vendors) have 
missed the existence of LFP.
I did assume that any vendor not supporting LFP our days should go out of the 
market very fast.
It looks like vendors are not developing anything because they are preparing 
for an inevitable shutdown (losing market to well-known competitors).
IMHO: vendors are accelerating their death in this way.

It may be some patent, but I doubt that a patent could completely block 
innovations.

Eduard
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From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> 
Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 12:32
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Cc: Vasilenko Eduard <vasilenko.edu...@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [NANOG] Re: Small Capacity UPS



On 4/7/25 08:30, Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG wrote:

> lithium is a)expensive, b)dangerous (it could quickly burn your house), 
> c)would be dead in 4 years.
> We're talking about stationery; it's not wearable, right?
> Then there are many LiFePO batteries on the market.

Ummh, the Li in LiFePO4 (a.k.a LFP) is Lithium.

Li-Ion batteries come in all manner of chemistries, where different materials 
may be chosen for the cathode. While there are a number of them, the most 
common ones are NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) and PO4 (Phosphate).

NMC has generally been used in EV's due to its high energy density, but OEM's 
have now started moving to LFP for this, where LFP was traditionally used for 
stationery applications (home backup, for
example) due its higher safety properties.

LFP is cheaper than NMC. And while NMC will provide fewer cycles than LFP, the 
time period will vary based on usage, even with factoring in calendar aging.

Mark.
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