This is a list of design or feature proposals for UPSide that have been rejected. It's meant to be referred to if these are re-proposed.
* Make the forebrain an Arduino-class embedded controller, not a Unix SBC
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Penny wise, pound foolish; the skills required to do software development on no-OS embedded processors are too uncommon, critically limiting the potential developer pool. It's not even clear this would be a BOM win; Unix SBCs tend to have bundled-in ports that we'll need and would otherwise have to buy separately.
* Get rid of the PSU on the host machine; build something that feeds it DC direct.
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Yes, inverter conversion losses suck. No, this wanders too far outside the range of what people buy UPSes to do. See link:Use-Cases[Use Cases] for discussion.
