they all use the same protocol, the difference is between the smart ups and the backups. all smartups use one protocol all backups use another.
The very newest ones with usb and such might have changed this, I don't know. incidentally with the smartups you can query the ups for the amount of runtime left so you know how much life is left in the battery, the ups self-tests this periodically and you can send a command to it to do this. Very useful. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Navarre > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Robert Huff > Subject: Re: APC UPS question > > > On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote: > > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you > > > sure your looking at the right thing? > > > > I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers > > (420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have > > serial ports only. (They are 5+ years old.) > > > > > > Robert Huff > > > Does the 650 work well with FreeBSD? I can get a refurb 650 from > APC for the > same price as I can find the 280. > > -- > "We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, > and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind > of thing doesn't have to stop there." -- Dana Gould > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
