User's Manual UPS control system
Table Of Contents
- Apcupsd User's Manual
- Release Notes
- How To Use This Manual
- Basic User's Guide
- Planning Your Installation
- Building and Installing apcupsd
- After Installation
- Configuration Examples
- Testing Apcupsd
- Troubleshooting Your Installation
- Monitoring and Tuning your UPS
- Maintaining Your UPS
- Frequently-Asked Questions
- Apcupsd Bugs
- Advanced topics
- Customizing Event Handling
- Master/Slave Configurations
- Controlling Multiple UPSes on one Machine
- Support for SNMP UPSes
- Alternate Ways To Run The Network Information Server
- apcupsd System Logging
- Installation: Windows
- Windows Version of apcupsd
- Installation: Serial-Line UPSes
- Overview of Serial-Interface UPSes
- Connecting a Serial-Line UPS to a USB Port
- Connecting a APC USB UPS to either a PC USB or Serial Port
- Cables
- Smart-Custom Cable for SmartUPSes
- Smart Signalling Cable for BackUPS CS Models
- Voltage-Signalling Cable for "dumb" UPSes
- Other APC Cables that apcupsd Supports
- Voltage Signalling Features Supported by Apcupsd for Various Cables
- Voltage Signalling
- Back-UPS Office 500 signals
- Analyses of APC Cables
- Win32 Implementation Restrictions for Simple UPSes
- Internal Apcupsd Actions for Simple Cables
- RS232 Wiring and Signal Conventions
- Pin Assignment for the Serial Port (RS-232C), 25-pin and 9-pin, Female End
- Ioctl to RS232 Correspondence
- Testing Serial-Line UPSes
- Troubleshooting Serial Line communications
- Recalibrating the UPS Runtime
- DATA Logging
- Technical Reference
- Configuration Directive Reference
- apcupsd Status Logging
- Shutown Sequence and its Discontents
- APC smart protocol
- Apcupsd --- RPM Packaging FAQ
- Credits
- Kernel Config

The solution to the problem (thanks to Tom Suzda) is to unplug the UPS
and while it is still chattering, press the power button (on the front of the
unit) until the unit beeps and the chattering stops. After that the UPS
should behave normally and power down 1-2 minutes after requested to do
so.
An amazing discovery by slither
man allows one to build a CUSTOM-RJ45
cable (documented above) and run the BackUPS CS (and probably also the
ES) in Smart mode. Running it this way provides all the same information
that you would get by running it in USB mode. As a consequence, we
recommend that you either purchase (where I don’t know) or build your
own CUSTOM-RJ45 cable rather than use the 940-0128A cable.
Thanks to all the people who have helped test this and have provided in-
formation on the cable wiring, our best guess for the cable schematic is the
following:
computer --------- Inside the Connector--------- UPS
DB9-F | | RJ45
pin - signal | | Pin - Color
| |
4 DSR ->|---+ |
| | diode resistor |
6 DTR ->|---+---->|----/\/\/\---o kill power | 8 Orange
| |
1 DCD <-|----+ |
| | |
2 RxD <-|----+----------------+--o low battery| 3 Brown
| | |
7 RTS ->|----------+--/\/\/\--+ |
| | |
| +--/\/\/\--+ |
| | |
8 RI <-|----+----------------+--o on battery | 2 Black
| | |
9 CTS <-|----+ |
| signal |
5 GND --|-----------------------o ground | 7 Red
| |
3 TxD | |
| chassis |
Chassis/GND |-----------------------o ground | 4 Black
| |
| Not connected | 1, 5, 6, 9, 10
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The RJ45 pins are: looking at the end of the connector:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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