Can Portable Power Stations also be REAL backup UPS worthy?? 

Also make sure your actual UPS can communicate with the machines you are backing up so they can shut down gracefully in the event it is needed. These power stations don't have any way to talk to your computer but the UPS can, I do this exact setup at home for my UNRAID server, if all back up is loss it will still shut down gracefully.

Buyers beware: The VTOMAN Flashspeed 1500 UPS function is faulty, when charged to 100% the switchover takes about 3 seconds, It's 20ms, as advertised, when charging only. Had to put a real UPS between the power station and the PC.

why would anyone spend that type of money for a power station when you can buy a 200 dollar cyber power UPS and then get a small inverter generator for like 500 bucks. You only need the power when lights go out for say a hour or two. in that time you can run a cord and crank the small generator that you plug your ups back up to. Also Lithium batteries have got really cheap. You can get a LFP 100 amp hour battery now for 150 bucks add a inverter say 1000 watt inverter from Amazon for 70 bucks and boom you have a back up for your UPS that will keep ya running a long time.

I bought an ALLPOWER 2000 watt solar generator with 400 watts of charging from Walmart for 1200 bucks tax included 😊I researched a lot because I live day to day most of the time and it was the best buy around. No ups but affordable

not a real UPS then... To say it is a UPS, that is an UNINERUPTABLE power supply.. if it bumps off for a second, or even a split second that a computer bonks off, then it is not uninterruptable!!!

nothing will be able to beat a gas powered inverter generator when the lights go out. They are cheap easy to start and put out a LOT more power for a lot longer time.

Obviously, he is leaving out the ones that would have given the correct results in favor of the result he wanted, some test lol....

If you're going to do the UPS + power station thing make sure to allow some overhead for charging the UPS and test the heck out of it.

How about daisy chaining a power station behind a UPS so that the UPS can communicate via USB but run off the power station until it drains.

After I finish installing a big assed SMA-based offgrid solar system for my shop, my mom's house, my future house, and another future big outbuilding, I'm going to recycle two of my parent's old Trace and Outback inverters as UPS. Huge honking units for just 3500 watts each...but highly efficient (maybe 8-10 watts standby?) and have quick power switching pass through. Gonna wire their gen ports in to my bigger system for passthrough power. Get em a couple of lifepo4 200 AH batteries (with BMS) and use existing charge controllers to treat them like a FLA battery (dumb communication) with custom parameters.

Really cool and informative video!! I now want more videos about UPS reviews :D

Thank you for the topic demo upfront in your video and the detail about the demos at the end of your video. I sure wish more youtubers followed that format. I agree with all you said. Most people have no clue about UPS or even a perspective of the unit of time expressed in milliseconds. Hint: Snap your fingers then divide what you heard by 1000 and you got about one (1) millisecond. I would ask that using the APP for a solar generator as a UPS one should monitor the solar generators internal battery temperature. Below 50°C (122°F) on Li-Ion not sure about LIFEPO4 chemistry.

Super informative, I was wondering about exactly this.

I got the informations I needed. Clear and straight to the point.

I think that would be a good test, hook up a few UPS' one at a time and see what would happen. From what I understand and used, UPS' need a pure sine input in order to recognize utility power. I think this would show the actual application and everything in action. I know it is impossible to test many UPS', but maybe just a few consumer (not enterprise/business) sizes (300-600VA, 1000-1500VA) across a few well known brands like APC, CyberPower, Tripp-Lite etc.

Excellent discussion of this issue and I agree with your final recommendation.

Thanks Jason. Nice video. Keep it going!

My favorite ups's are used APC SU series, usually the su-1500s. Getting good replacement batteries can be a challenge though. In my office currently I have a Powerware that I got for free. That thing is a beast (3kw iirc) and easier to get decent batteries for.

This is an awesome video. Very interesting and helpful.

Great video. Can you test and review an eco flow?