My UPS died two nights ago. From the symptoms, including the fact that the event took the motherboard of my main machine with it and the unreasonable amount of heat the UPS was generating immediately after, I believe this was a genuine fried-brains failure of the control electronics, not a mere battery death. The old UPS (a Belkin FVC1200) has been packed off to a recycler, and the motherboard hurriedly replaced.
The good news, for you guys anyway, is that becoming active in NUT again just became much more interesting :-) I had unfinished business with revising the NUT documentation that I had let slide because of being a lead on one project (gpsd) and a senior dev on another (Battle For Wesnoth). Now I have every reason to finish that job, because I shall need to re-familiarize myself with the NUT installation and configuration process anyway. In parallel, I will update the UPS HOWTO, <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/introduction.html>. I have not yet selected a replacement UPS. There is no urgent need for me to do so; where I live (mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.) it is the dead of winter and the absolutely least risky time of the year for events like blackouts and electrical storms. I have about three months before our summer storm season really threatens. Rather than buy a UPS instantly, I would prefer to do some research on the state of the market in 2009 and allow others to benefit from what I learn. Accordingly, I have at least three sets of questions that I will pose to the NUT list as separate notes in order to start off topic threads. The answers to these questions will inform my buying decision, will be directly updated in a near-future update to the UPS HOWTO, and will determine how much and what kind of work I put in on NUT during the next few months. -- >>esr>> _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
