I just saw a guy on another forum who is using an APC brand UPS to power his monolights. He says he hasn't had any problems but I have heard that an inverter needs to output a pure sine wave to avoid damaging your lights. I know this unit doesn't do that. The literature references a "modified square wave". Does anyone here have any experience with one of these units? The one he is using costs less than $100 and he uses it to power two lights shooting at f16 to overpower the sun. He claims to get about 100 pops at full power. This would be the cheapest battery power solution I have seen.
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