[mythtvnz] Possibly OT: UPS question
Dean Pemberton
dean at deanpemberton.com
Fri Jan 14 02:51:34 GMT 2011
I got replacement batteries for my APC too.
But I'm picking that I went down a little different path than you both...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanpemberton/2614770048/
I'm going to put a HUGE "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME" disclaimer here
before anyone tries to do a similar thing though. Make sure you know
what you're doing.
Dean
On 12/01/11 8:42 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I'll agree with that. I got my replacement batteries off trademe and
> they're been great.
>
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 20:04 +1300, criggie at criggie.dyndns.org wrote:
>> AAARGH!!! Sodding piece of crap they are. They work fine as a power
>> supplier, and its good they added a cooling fan, but the USB one is
>> totally standards non-compliant.
>>
>> The best suggestion I have is to swap it for the older serial one, or
>> try the latest bleeding edge NUT with the hid driver, whatever its called.
>>
>> Or return it, and buy new batteries for your APC. If that's scarey
>> sounding let me know - I think you're in Christchurch.
>>
>>
>> BTW in theory anything that talks to /dev/ttySx should talk to
>> /dev/ttyUSBx just the same. The dynamix one breaks the USB standard but
>> I don't recall exactly why.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/01/11 19:17, Robin Gilks wrote:
>>> Greetings all
>>>
>>> I've just replaced (or at least trying to!!) the UPS on my backend. My
>>> preference is to have all those disks let down carefully in the event of a
>>> power failure:)
>>>
>>> I've got a Dynamix 1700 that uses a USB connection back to the PC. I've
>>> tried NUT which always worked fine with my APC UPS but no go with this
>>> one.
>>>
>>> I've also tried the included software as well but that wants to talk to a
>>> serial port on the UPS - not a lot of good when its a USB port!!
>>>
>>> Anyone any clues on how to drive this beast or does it go back?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
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