<html><head></head><body>Interesting! And thanks for taking the time to reply, even if I didn't have a clue what your product was!<br>
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- Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 6, 2014 4:08:49 PM CST, Rob Groner <rgroner@RTD.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Tim,<br /><br />The UPS will be a PC104 device (<a href="http://www.rtd.com">www.rtd.com</a> to give you a quick visual of what that is), which means it will actually be physically stacked together with the power supply it is supporting. So cable length won't be an issue, as it will be communicating through USB in the PCIe bus to the CPU.<br /><br />Rob<br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: Nut-upsdev [mailto:nut-upsdev-bounces+rgroner=<a href="http://rtd.com">rtd.com</a>@lists.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Tim Dawson<br />Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 4:35 PM<br />To: nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org<br />Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Developing the UPS side of the UPS-NUT equation (via usbhid)<br /><br />Rob -<br /> Just out of curiosity, will this device also have any network monitoring connectivity, or just USB? Not sure what market you are targeting, but even as a small business/home compute user, I find that the distance limitations of!
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often cause me grief, and myself, I would love to see a network alternative as well . . . Perhaps support for a network dongle on the USB port? More software, I know, but depending on what's embedded in your UPS, it does eliminate the need for a hardware-centric network implementation . . .<br /><br />- Tim<br /><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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