On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:01:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > I think my UPS is dying. Time to get a new one. It's been years, so > there may be new tech out there I don't know about. My normal usage is > * 1 LCD monitor 24" > * 1 (sometimes 2) "desktop" PCs connected to the monitor > * 1 ADSL router/modem
I got an APC Back-UPS BX1300G-CN from the local Staples. No worry whatsoever about overloading this baby. I'm currently running a "torture test" with the monitor, the modem, and both PC's running. They're both doing an update. I set things up so that both are building gcc at the same time. Even so, the load indicator is only lighting up 2 of 5 bars, indicating approximately 40% of max load. It might've been a different story years ago back in the days of the Pentium 4 or AMD "space heaters", plus add-on video cards. Being the geek that I am, I did RTFM the docs that came with the UPS. It has an option to decide how much to allow voltage to vary before switching over to battery power. I selected the narrowest range, i.e. the "sensitive electronics" setting. One question about the configuration of apcupsd; what do I have to do get it to execute "/usr/sbin/hibernate" when hydro is out, and the battery is running low? -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
