On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:18, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: ..

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When connected to a SuSE box with the serial cable they can be easily monitored with the apcupsd package, that comes with SuSE.

Looks like most of the APC systems advertise USB connection. Does this work on Linux? I do have USB connectors and have no problems with a USB mouse.

No they don't. Unfortunately our USB kernel module is not up to it yet. I got a 950W ups from Conext with serial I/O for $129. I'm just installing the daemon to monitor it. I'll let you know the result shortly. -- Steve _____________________________________________________________ HTML in e-mail is not safe. It let's spammers know to spam you, and sets you up for online attack through IE 4.5 and above. Using HTML promotes it as safe to the uninitiated.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:56:38PM -0400, steve wrote:

On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:50, steve wrote:

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On Saturday 15 June 2002 12:18, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: ..

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When connected to a SuSE box with the serial cable they can be easily monitored with the apcupsd package, that comes with SuSE.

Looks like most of the APC systems advertise USB connection. Does this work on Linux? I do have USB connectors and have no problems with a USB mouse.

No they don't. Unfortunately our USB kernel module is not up to it yet. I got a 950W ups from Conext with serial I/O for $129. I'm just installing the daemon to monitor it. I'll let you know the result shortly.

Looks like I might wrong about USB, at least apcupsd says it does support USB which I think is the optimum way to as far as ports goes. (I thought I got a reply from the USB list that it was not supported by the kernel yet. I do have some APC's at work so I will get one and verify the USB I/O.)

The Conext comes with an apc cable 20C which is not a smart cable. This is bad as newer ups's tend to be smart. I guess the savings I made in dollars are visible with the simple I/O it seem to have. Their web site is not working too well. Timing out...

I simulated power failure but did not get a message from apcupsd which seem to indicate poor communication between the two. Well, I can always return it if it won't fly and get an APC.

Since my CyberPower was working OK (except that it didn't have enough capacity and then died on me), I went out and bought another CyberPower with a higher rating (model 900AVR rated at 500 watts). It seems to be working OK. At lest my system runs when plugged in to it and I get a warning message that it is running on battery power when I pull the plug. I am using the nut package (used to be called smartups). This treats it as a "generic" UPS and apparently doesn't support everything the supply is capable of since it comes with a Windows program that displays lots of info like battery level, voltage, etc.. Perhaps if I look around I'll find a way to take advantage of all its capabilities. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:01:35PM +0200, Clinton F. Aarts wrote:

Can't you just replace the battery? or is the unit that old. I believe the battery of most APC systems can be replaced.

Part of the problem is that the UPSD I have is not up to spec for my system. It only supported 185 Watts. I was trying to run a 430 Watt power supply and a couple of other things off of it. Perhaps this is what blew it out. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net