On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM Dave Phelps via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
If you don't mind building you own UPS from COTS parts, you may want to look at Xantrex (https://xantrex.com/). I have one of their UPS units (the FREEDOM XC PRO 2000) in an RV with 2 100AH LiFePo4 batteries in parallel.
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