Nice little surprise in UPS or Battery Backup for eWaste recyclers

Originally Posted by ozzy214

THe other thing I dont understand phantom is how your hooking up the battery backup as a invertor off the solar panels. All battery backups except rack mount, will npot put out juice unless plugged into a outlet. And the outlet has to be earthed. Just proved this when the main blew in my house and the battery backups didnt work. They had to be hooked to a outlet that was grouned.

I personally have not come across a backup that won't work unplugged. It would kind of defeat the purpose of having a backup I would think. While I'm not an electrician, I'm also very sure that even if your "main blew" in your house that all the outlets would still be grounded (maybe someone with more electrical experience can chime in). I'm sure that it's possible that there are some designs that could require some strange things, but these small nuances are not the majority. I have an 800vac APC stand alone backup that I just tested this morning by unplugging so I could throw it in the "take apart pile" for later.

If this really was the case, it would be simple to just jump the ground and problem solved, but I have not yet come across that problem.