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
Register 1
All bits are valid on the Matrix UPS. SmartUPS models only support bits
6 and 7. Other models do not respond.
Bit Hex
Bit
Meaning
0 0x01 In wakeup mode (typically lasts < 2s)
1 0x02 In bypass mode due to internal fault - see register 2 or 3
2 0x04 Going to bypass mode due to command
3 0x08 In bypass mode due to command
4 0x10 Returning from bypass mode
5 0x20 In bypass mode due to manual bypass control
6 0x40 Ready to power load on user command
7 0x80 Ready to power load on user command or return of line power
Register 2
Matrix UPS models report bits 0-5. SmartUPS models only support bits 4
and 6. SmartUPS v/s and BackUPS Pro report bits 4, 6, 7. Unused bits
are set to 0. Other models do not respond.
Bit Meaning
0 Fan failure in electronics, UPS in bypass
1 Fan failure in isolation unit
2 Bypass supply failure
3 Output voltage select failure, UPS in bypass
4 DC imbalance, UPS in bypass
5 Command sent to stop bypass with no battery connected - UPS still in
bypass
6 Relay fault in SmartTrim or SmartBoost
7 Bad output voltage
Register 3
All bits are valid on the Matrix UPS and 3rd generation SmartUPS models.
SmartUPS v/s and BackUPS Pro models report bits 0-5. All others report
0-4. State change of bits 1,2,5,6,7 are reported asynchronously with ? and
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