RE: Re: [Sightly OT] - UPS Question...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Andy,

Calibrating now...

God it's hard finding enough load (without hoiking in TVs) to put on the
thing ... You spend ages trying to minimise current drain and suddenly I'm
dragging up a couple of laptops, a desk lamp, a 333MHz Compaq DeskPro
(which
happened to have Win2k on it so was handy for sticking Powerchute on) and
plugging in a CRT monitor too.

That little pile only gets to 37.4% load (and that's when you add in the
4Tb
over 21 IDE drives of network servers that are currently sat there too!)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Andy Whitfield
> Sent: 16 May 2005 14:56
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [Sightly OT] - UPS Question...
>
> Phil,
> You need to calibrate the UPS.
> Can be done via Powerchute or manually.  100% battery charge
> and 40% or greater load.  Then select calibrate option in
> Powerchute or if Powerchute not connected then run right down
> until UPS switches off.
> Regards
> Andy
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Phil Harris <phil@a...> wrote:
> > Anyone here got an APC2200 UPS? (Not XL or RM)
> >
> > Just replaced the batteries in mine on Friday (after the original
> > batteries failed and the UPS was mothballed for a few years) and
> this
> > morning I see that the "battery capacity" display (the
column of
> LEDs to
> > the right of the control panel) is flashing.
> >
> > I don't think I have excessive load on the UPS (only one LED lit
on
> the
> > "load" display on the left of the control panel) but I
don't have a
> > manual for the 2200 anywhere that I can find to have a look at
what
> that
> > display flashing means (however I *THINK* it means "your
batteries
> are
> > buggered").
> >
> > Does anyone know whether you need to tell the UPS that it has had
> new
> > batteries fitted or should it be able to work that out for
itself?
> >
> > At the moment I don't have it hooked up to any monitoring
software
> (I
> > only have windows software and my server has "gone
linux") so at
> the
> > moment I'm flying a bit blind.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Phil
>
>
>
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