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
Valid EEPROM values for the SMART-UPS 1000
Config Current Permitted
Description Directive Value Values
===================================================================
Upper transfer voltage HITRANSFER 253 253 264 271 280
Lower transfer voltage LOTRANSFER 196 196 188 208 204
Return threshold RETURNCHARGE 0 00 15 50 90
Output voltage on batts OUTPUTVOLTS 230 230 240 220 225
Sensitivity SENSITIVITY H H M L L
Low battery warning LOWBATT 2 02 05 07 10
Shutdown grace delay SLEEP 20 020 180 300 600
Alarm delay BEEPSTATE 0 0 T L N
Wakeup delay WAKEUP 0 000 060 180 300
Self test interval SELFTEST 336 336 168 ON OFF
===================================================================
Battery date: 07/31/99
UPS Name : UPS_IDEN
At this point, you can select any item from 2) to 13) to modify the appro-
priate value. You will shown the existing value and prompted for the new
values.
We recommend that you change the EEPROM as little as is absolutely nec-
essary since it is a somewhat delicate process that has occasionally produced
problems (i.e. improper EEPROM values are displayed after the update).
Fortunately this seems to be quite rare and was much more likely to occur
with the old “batch” like process especially if incorrect values were supplied.
Maintaining Your UPS
If you have your UPS long enough, you will probably have battery prob-
lems. Below, you will find some suggestions for replacing batteries. One
important note of caution: at least one user purchased one of the non-APC
batteries noted below and found out that they would not fit into his unit.
This required cutting and soldering and other very undesirable things, so
be extremely careful in measuring the batteries including every millimeter
of the terminal connections which can cause problems.
Although you can do a hot swap of your batteries while the computer is
running, it may not be very satisfactory because the unit will not know that
the batteries have been swapped and apcupsd will continue to show Low
Battery. To correct this situation, you must do a discharge and recharge
of the battery followed by a battery recalibration using apctest. At that
point the battery should be calibrated better. As noted below, Carl has
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