On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:38 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 09/26/2012 09:19 AM, Mark Burton wrote: >> I'm loading just the driver… >> >> it kind-of-works… >> >> One minor problem - the zigor 650 unit I have seems to fail if my iMac is >> drawing too much power. Basically, if the screen brightness is turned up, >> then the thing fails to go onto battery mode (presumably sensing the high >> power draw as an error). Net result - the whole thing is a bit of a pain…. [...] > Just a bystander's note: at 650 VA / 360W the unit really should be able > to power any modern PC,
Not sure which iMac Mark has, but a few of them have power consumption in that neighborhood: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3559 > To cut it short: IMHO that zigor unit is either defective or a piece of > junk with overrated capabilities. That was my thought when I found out that they were using an invalid vendor ID of 0001, but I was trying to give it a chance... -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
