Why can my uninterruptible power source handle an entire workstation and 4 monitors for half an hour, but dies on my toaster in less than 30 seconds?

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Lost power today. My toddler wanted toast during the outage so I figured I could make her some via the UPS. It made it all of 10 seconds before it was completely dead.

Edit: I turned it off immediately after we lost power so it was at about 95% capacity. This also isn’t your average workstation, it’s got a threadripper and a 4080 in it. That being said it wasn’t doing anything intensive.
It’s also a monster UPS.

Edit2: its not a TI obviously. I’ve lost my mind attempting to reason with a 2 year old about why she got no toast for hours.

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The average Toaster uses 1100 watts. The average Monitor uses 84 watts and a PC uses about 100 watts, at max power about 350 vs 1100 for a basic toaster, more if it’s a bigger 4 slice.

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