<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><br>Citeren Arnaud Quette <ArnaudQuette@Eaton.com>:</div>
This is hardly surprising. Your UPS seems was designed for 230V nominal mains voltage</div></blockquote><div><br>Arjen, it's always good talking to someone who really understands what they're talking about. <br><br>
You're right. Brazil's voltage standard is 110v in some cities, 220v in most and always 60hz. About the ups, it has a big red label stating "use only on 220-240V". I really liked your input, so don't get me wrong here: as this product was bought (in fact, given to me) in Brazil I'll just assume Eaton is selling an ups that's appropriate for use here. <br>
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Besides that I've never seen it going beyond 90% of battery<br>
charge but I believe it's by design because tha manual states that it<br>
takes around 8 hours to charge from full discharge to 90% (maybe for<br>
safety reasons?).<br>
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See 'man 8 megatec'. You probably need to set a couple of parameters to correct this. Note that the blazer driver also supports a different method of battery charge and runtime calculation that doesn't rely on the battery voltage. This may result in more accurate readings. Make sure you thoroughly read 'man 8 blazer' before using this.<div class="im">
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<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I've read the megatec man page and I'll configure the driver properly. My distro (ubuntu 8.04) doens't come with a blazer driver. But anyway, *in my case* I just don't think it's worth configuring the battery charge level. The only thing that's really important is to get the pc to shutdown before the battery goes dead. <br>
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Anyway, I'll set up a script to collect data on the ups and in a few<br>
days we should have an answer.<br>
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We provide a tool for that already. Checkout 'man 8 upslog', which can help you log data for your UPS.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Sweet, I just wanted to have read this earlier. :-/<br><br>Below is the log my script generated:<br> <br>timestamp,battery.charge,battery.voltage,battery.voltage.nominal,<a href="http://driver.name">driver.name</a>,driver.parameter.pollinterval,driver.parameter.port,driver.version,driver.version.internal,input.frequency,input.voltage,input.voltage.fault,input.voltage.maximum,input.voltage.minimum,output.voltage,output.voltage.nominal,ups.beeper.status,ups.delay.shutdown,ups.delay.start,ups.load,ups.mfr,ups.model,ups.serial,ups.status,ups.temperature<br>
2009-09-15 21:09:16,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,210.0,210.0,215.2,209.5,210.0,230.0,enabled,0,2,20.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-15 21:10:16,52.5,11.80,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,60.1,5.2,5.2,215.2,209.5,238.2,230.0,enabled,0,2,21.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OB,25.0<br>
2009-09-15 21:11:16,52.5,11.80,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,60.1,5.2,5.2,215.2,209.5,237.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,20.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OB,25.0<br>2009-09-15 21:12:16,52.5,11.80,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,60.1,5.2,5.2,215.2,209.5,238.2,230.0,enabled,0,2,20.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OB,25.0<br>
2009-09-15 21:13:16,52.5,11.80,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,60.1,5.2,5.2,215.2,209.5,237.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,20.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OB,25.0<br>2009-09-15 21:14:16,75.0,12.70,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,209.5,210.0,215.2,209.5,247.7,230.0,enabled,0,2,20.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL BOOST,25.0<br>
--- snip --- <br></div>2009-09-16 00:32:22,87.5,13.20,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,215.2,215.2,220.1,206.0,215.2,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 00:33:22,87.5,13.20,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,215.2,215.7,220.1,206.0,215.7,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
--- snip ---<br>2009-09-16 01:13:24,87.5,13.20,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.5,213.0,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:14:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.5,213.5,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:15:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.0,213.5,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:16:24,87.5,13.20,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.5,213.5,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:17:24,87.5,13.20,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.8,214.8,220.1,206.0,214.4,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:18:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.8,214.8,220.1,206.0,214.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,19.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:19:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.8,214.8,220.1,206.0,214.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:20:24,87.5,13.20,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.9,213.9,220.1,206.0,213.9,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:21:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.8,215.2,220.1,206.0,214.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:22:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.8,214.8,220.1,206.0,214.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:23:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.8,214.8,220.1,206.0,214.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:24:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,214.4,214.4,220.1,206.0,213.9,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:25:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.5,214.4,220.1,206.0,214.8,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:26:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.5,213.5,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
2009-09-16 01:27:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.9,213.5,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>2009-09-16 01:28:24,90.0,13.30,12.0,megatec_usb,2,auto,2.2.1-,1.5.13,59.9,213.5,213.5,220.1,206.0,213.5,230.0,enabled,0,2,17.0,unknown,unknown,unknown,OL,25.0<br>
<br>Now I'm pretty sure it never goes beyond 90%, but I can live with that. <br><br>Thank you all for the help!<br></div><br>--<br>Vitor Choi Feitosa <<a href="mailto:vchoi@vchoi.org">vchoi@vchoi.org</a>><br>+55 61 7814-9719<br>