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
7 Dip switch positions (if applica-
ble)
See below
8 Register #3 See below
9 Line quality “FF” acceptable, “00” unaccept-
able
> Number of external battery packs
attached
SmartCell models: “nnn” where
nnn is how many external packs
are connected Non-SmartCell
units: whatever has been set with
>+ and >- by the user
Matrix
UPS
(and
pos-
sibly
Sym-
metra)
specific
com-
mands
ˆ Run in bypass mode If online, “BYP” is received as by-
pass mode starts If already in by-
pass, “INV” is received and UPS
goes online “ERR” received if UPS
is unable to transfer
< Number of bad battery packs “nnn” - count of bad packs con-
nected to the UPS
/ Load current “nn.nn” - true RMS load current
drawn by UPS
\ Apparent load power “nnn.nn” - output load as percent-
age of full rated load in VA.
ˆV Output voltage selection (ed-
itable)
“A” - automatic according to in-
put tap, “M” - 208 VAC, “I” - 240
VAC
ˆL Front panel language “E” - English, “F” - French, “G”
- German, “S” - Spanish, “1” “2”
“3” “4” - ?
w Run time conservation “NO” (disabled) or “02” “05”
“08” - minutes of runtime to
leave in battery (UPS shuts down
“early”)
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