I will say this @ school we have a Apc BackUPS 650 on a sun to and it
works.. I know because we tested it just a few weeks ago...
Brandon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Schutter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brandon Caudle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?
> He is talking about the issues that I have run into as well. On my
> Gateway PC box, I can get a signal from my APC BackUPS 650 that it
> has gone to battery power, but I can not get the low battery signal.
> After much testing, swapping of cables, etc, I agree 100% with Rusty.
> The APC BackUPS series is not RS232 compliant, and will not work with
> all serial cards. It may work with yours, but that is no reason to
> label Rusty as a "wako". Speaking of which, it is "whacko" not "wako".
> If you are going to flame, you may as well learn to spell, so you only
> look half as stupid.
Half as stupid >>>>> we'll for a 15 year old thats making 33.95 and hour as
a network administrator for a HUGE country club i'n not as stupid as you
think.. GPA: 4.25 and i speek 5 languages FLUENTLY
>
> Brandon Caudle wrote:
> >
> > I had a APC BackUps 650 and it work flawlessly. Can say any thing
better.
> > Have no clue what this wako is talking about..
> >
> > brandon caudle
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pierre Fortin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Rusty Carruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?
> >
> > > Rusty Carruth wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Second, DO NOT BUY APC! ESPECIALLY DO NOT BUY a BackUps! But I'd
> > > > say just avoid them. (Sorry for yelling, but their supposedly
> > > > RS232-C 'signaling' scheme is not RS232 compliant, and if your
> > > > serial port requires valid RS232 signal levels you wont' be able
> > > > to detect low battery (as it only goes to zero VOLTS - some (most?)
> > > > pc hardware is really sloppy and will take a zero volt as a valid
> > > > level, but that's not according to spec - and some hardware (like,
> > > > say, Sun) actually meets spec and will NOT see LB from the UPS
> > > > without a fair amount of hassle. why do I say all this, and
> > > > where do I get my knowledge? I'm trying to get 4 stupid APC
> > > > BackUPS' to work with our Sun Ultra5s - and if there was any
> > > > way I could SEND THE RETARDED THINGS back and get something
> > > > else I would do it in a nanosecond!)
> > >
> > > Not sure if this will help; but since I have several APC UPS which I
> > haven't
> > > setup to monitor (will do when I move my office) I did a quick search
for
> > RS232
> > > 1488 chips and came across this link:
> > >
> > > http://www.kpumis.gdansk.tpnet.pl/etrad/upsd.htm
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Pierre
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)
>
