Hi Arjen, On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:29:18 +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Everything looks OK as far as I can tell, except for battery.date. If > > the string is returned directly be the UPS then I guess there's not > > much that can be done though. > > This is the date read from the UPS and as far as I can see, it is > read-only. Maybe it's writeable, but then someone (preferably an owner) > has to change the 'apc-hid.c' subdriver. I doubt it's worth the effort > however.
Agreed. > > For what it's worth, the utility that > > comes with the UPS (PowerChute Personal Edition) doesn't seem to > > display this information (or at least I couldn't find it.) > > > > I'm not too sure about ups.delay.shutdown either; a negative value > > there looks strange, but maybe it has a special meaning? > > It has. This is a counter that counts down from a delay value. When it > reaches '0', the UPS is shutdown. The value '-1' means that the counter > is currently inactive. Maybe this could be documented on http://www.networkupstools.org/doc/2.2.0/new-names.html ? > > As far as the hardware is concerned, the Back-UPS RS 800 seems to work > > reasonably well for my limited needs. My only concern is its power > > consumption, which I measured between 7 and 11 Watts, when my previous > > model (APC Back-UPS 500) needed only 2 Watts. > > There is nothing we can do about that. Complain to the manufacturer > about that. Hehe, of course, I didn't expect you to fix my hardware ;) I was simply sharing the information in case other NUT users are interested. BTW, I _did_ complain about that to APC. They are currently "continuing to work on my issue". I am not holding my breath though, I reported it to show them that at least some users care about power consumption, but I don't expect them to fix my hardware either. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
