Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it won't last all that long. Gave ~5 mins. So I let it charge for 24 hrs now it gives me 36 mins.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it won't last all that long.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:31:45 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: In the conf file I have DEVICE: /dev/ttyS[0-3] because the default, /dev/ttyS0, locks out the modem. But why does the UPS need to know about serial ports? It connects by this funny RJ-45/USB cable. I wonder does the manufacturer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Martin
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Unplug all your electronic devices and plug in a lamp with a 100 Watt incandescent light build. With the lamp on unplug the UPS from the wall and see what happens. If the battery is dead it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
    It's not supposed to say DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 for USB, it should just be blank as per /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf Previously I had v.3.14 which I had installed from a tarball; now I'm using 3.12 installed via portage. And even though in both cases the conf file defaults to UPSTYPE usb the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
The relevant lines from my apcupsd.conf are Yep, that's what I got. UPSCABLE usb UPSTYPE usb DEVICE blank didn't work in v3.14 for me. Now, with v3.12, this might change. I'll give it a whirl. DEVICE -- Neil Bothwick Das Internet is nicht fuer gefingerclicken und

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:56:06 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: UPSCABLE usb UPSTYPE usb DEVICE blank didn't work in v3.14 for me. Now, with v3.12, this might change. I'll give it a whirl. DEVICE I'm using 3.14.5-r2. Post your complete configuration file. -- Neil Bothwick I haven't

[gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-28 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Lookee here: kyzyl linux # apcaccess status APC : 001,034,0852 DATE : Tue Apr 28 19:26:47 MDT 2009 HOSTNAME : kyzyl RELEASE : 3.12.4 VERSION : 3.12.4 (19 August 2006) gentoo UPSNAME : kyzyl CABLE: USB Cable MODEL: Back-UPS ES 350 UPSMODE : Stand Alone STARTTIME:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-28 Thread Eric Martin
maxim wexler wrote: Only 2.8mins left? The UPS unit, fairly common I suspect, is a Back-UPS ES 350 and less than a year old. It only saw service once last year during an electric storm when the house power failed for a few minutes. Why isn't it charging. Or is it? It says BATTDATE

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi group, Lookee here: kyzyl linux # apcaccess status APC      : 001,034,0852 DATE     : Tue Apr 28 19:26:47 MDT 2009 HOSTNAME : kyzyl RELEASE  : 3.12.4 VERSION  : 3.12.4 (19 August 2006) gentoo UPSNAME  : kyzyl