On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:28:04 pm Charles Lepple did opine: > On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Before I start on those scripts again, can you clarify this line in > > the > > status output for me? > > ups.load: 31 > > Percentage of max load, as reported by the UPS itself.
That was the conclusion I came to after considering alternatives, none of which made sense once I walked around the suggestion. Thanks for confirming it. > > Its a 1500 WA rated supply. If that is the percentage of the max > > load it > > can support, then there obviously is plenty of margin available to > > extend a > > drop cord to a legacy computer in the basement that normally runs > > headless > > because I usually work on it from here with a minicom session to a > > shell > > started to a serial port on it. That would help protect it from > > locally > > induced lightning cause emp's, which have caused degraded usb hubs > > in the > > past. However, that load would have to include a brother B&W laser > > printer, and they are hungry, with dim the lights startup draws. > > Humm. I > > think I just shot that idea down in flames. > > I tend to keep printers on the surge-suppressed-only outlets. Inkjets aren't that bad, I've had an epson on this one since forever. But warming up the drum in a laser will raise the load considerably. > > > If that is a percentage, the report should add a % to that line in > > the next > > incarnation. ;) > > ...or you could use a GUI for that ;-) > KDE-3.5 had one that was downright purty, but it hasn't been ported to KDE-4.5.x yet, darnit. > We've tried to keep the output simple and machine-parseable. All of > the units are listed in the new user manual (as well as the text files > in older versions of the documentation): > > http://buildbot.networkupstools.org/~buildbot/docs/latest/website/user-m > anual.html#_nut_command_and_variable_naming_scheme Is that link in the INSTALL file? Thanks Charles. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Force has no place where there is need of skill. -- Herodotus _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
