UPS Battery backup?

There are several ways to utilize a UPS with the Apex. What are you looking to do with it? Are you looking to just power the Apex base unit? Or do you want the base unit to recognize the power outage and turn on/off certain outlets while running on the UPS?

The UPS you listed will run a low Wattage powerhead for a while, but not much else.
 
tmccaffery said:
I am looking into getting a backup battery in case of power loss. I am looking into this:

https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-C...=1364294246&sr=8-1&keywords=Cyber+power+cp850

What else do I need? And how to program Apex to turn this on indeed of a power failure.
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actually what you want to do is plug the apex power into the UPS and the UPS runs 24x7

with many types of UPS they can have a USB cable that can tell a computer that the power went out and estimate how long the UPS can stay on till it runs out of power, now if we had a box that gave the apex that data we could tell the apex to turn off pumps, lights etc...

now to run the pumps and lights you need a generator that is hooked up to one or more outlets in your home.

why? the pumps and lights will draw a lot of power , a UPS battery is to keep a computer on for say 20 minutes so that it can shutdown safe before the UPS battery runs out.

it's not meant to run a bunch of pumps and fans and such...

you can get generators for a whole house that can auto start in like 1 minute
and run for hours or days just a matter of refueling them.
and if you get that you can also run your a/c fridge and other stuff.
 
figuerres said:
actually what you want to do is plug the apex power into the UPS and the UPS runs 24x7

with many types of UPS they can have a USB cable that can tell a computer that the power went out and estimate how long the UPS can stay on till it runs out of power, now if we had a box that gave the apex that data we could tell the apex to turn off pumps, lights etc.......
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The Apex is pretty powerful. With the correct setup of how it identifies a power outage and the correct programming for the outlets, the Apex can out-of-the-box turn on or off whatever outlets you want based on whether or not it has sensed a power outage. You could use an oscillate command to run a powerhead intermittently to keep the O2 levels at safe levels. There's a lot of tricky things you can do to extend UPS run time.

That's why I'm asking the original poster how they intend to use it. Also... are we talking about a 'classic' Apex, or the new one?
 
kurt_n said:
The Apex is pretty powerful. With the correct setup of how it identifies a power outage and the correct programming for the outlets, the Apex can out-of-the-box turn on or off whatever outlets you want based on whether or not it has sensed a power outage. You could use an oscillate command to run a powerhead intermittently to keep the O2 levels at safe levels. There's a lot of tricky things you can do to extend UPS run time.

That's why I'm asking the original poster how they intend to use it. Also... are we talking about a 'classic' Apex, or the new one?
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I was looking to do this as well. i have the older apex and i have that cyberpower 1500 battery backup. we don't lose power often and when we do it is only for a couple hours max but I would love to keep my WAV powerhead running. is there a way to do this by powering the apex through the battery backup and having the apex turn off everything not needed as you mentioned or does that require the new apex that knows the power usage of each outlet? thanks!
 
DarthReefer27 said:
I was looking to do this as well. i have the older apex and i have that cyberpower 1500 battery backup. we don't lose power often and when we do it is only for a couple hours max but I would love to keep my WAV powerhead running. is there a way to do this by powering the apex through the battery backup and having the apex turn off everything not needed as you mentioned or does that require the new apex that knows the power usage of each outlet? thanks!
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Pete beat me to it! Page 143 on that .pdf that is in the 2nd link is how you do it with the "classic" Apex.

The little "don't forget" note on that page is a little misleading as they tell you that you don't need the extra EBx, but then don't tell you how to do it with only one EBx! That's where that .pdf in the 1st link comes in to play... it tells you how to set it up correctly!
 
tmccaffery said:
The new one; basically I just like to be able to run a circulation pump just in case of outage.
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Sorry it took a bit to get back to you. I have the legacy/classic Apex, so I'm not familiar with how to do it with the new one. But since I can do it with the old one, I'm pretty sure it's possible with the new one! You might drop over to Neptune's forum on their website and see if there's any info there.
 
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