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  • If you’re going this route, you may want to pay attention to the switchover time. For most consumer hardware, it can handle 10-20ms of switchover time. However, enterprise grade stuff is more sensitive to power fluctuations and sometimes needs near instantaneous switchover. It can get very expensive if you want LiFePo4 (like many of these portable stations) while also being “on line” (meaning instant switchover).

    There are middle ground options which have switchover timing of 5-8ms that are also LiFePo4. LiFePo4 is great because the chemistry doesn’t have a huge fire risk and it can do more cycles than a lead acid battery.

    Anyway, my bad for rambling.














  • Is there any timeline on 4.0? I figure it would also take awhile for 4.0-supported end devices to come out as well.

    No problem with waiting if your network is stable. I’ve heard that the Conbee 2 is better than the Nortek combo I was using, so that makes sense.

    To be clear, since I didn’t mention it in my post, my Zigbee net was mostly fine, just kind of sluggish if anything. My Z-Wave net is what needed the most help, for some reason. It was both sluggish and sometimes nodes would appear as “dead” and unavailable for awhile.