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J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tue, September 18, 2012 9:03 am, Dale wrote: |
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>> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:48 pm, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> I still have not hooked this thing up yet. We have storms predicted |
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>>>> here over the next couple days so I figure I will get a chance to |
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>>>> switch |
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>>>> whether I want to reboot or not. :/ I live close to the end of the |
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>>>> power lines, phone lines and everything else including the road. If |
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>>>> anything happens, we lose the connection. There are lots of trees |
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>>>> between here and town. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I'll post the results when I get switched over. Then we have a answer |
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>>>> to the question. |
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>>> Dale, |
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>>> |
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>>> A good way to test a new UPS is to use it to power a light and hook up |
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>>> the |
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>>> USB/Serial/... to a computer to see what information you can get out of |
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>>> it |
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>>> in the various "normal" situations of "plugged in" and "not plugged in" |
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>>> You don't need to reboot your machine for that. :) |
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>>> |
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>> I need to reboot when I plug the power cord up tho. I have the UPS |
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>> plugged in and the battery is charged. I even hooked it up to a older |
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>> rig that was given to me and the UPS works fine. I just have not done |
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>> anything as far as hooking it to my main rig yet. I also have not |
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>> hooked up the data part, just the power part. I was running memtest on |
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>> the older rig to test some ram so no need trying to hook up the data |
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>> part on that. ;-) |
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>> Plus, aren't you supposed to only unplug/plug a serial cable when it is |
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>> off? I'm not sure if they are sensitive to that but pretty sure they |
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>> were a long time ago. |
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> Not sure about Serial, I always did even when switched on when using |
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> external modems in the past and never did have a problem there. |
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> But if you want to see what USB gives as info, you could plug the |
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> USB-cable into your computer and see what info you can get? |
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Well, my old UPS is hooked to serial. I also have to recompile nut with |
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the correct drivers. I guess I could enable both drivers, old UPS and |
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new UPS, and see what that does. Well, I'd have to edit my config file |
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too. Sounds like time to backup /etc again, just in case. ;-) |
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Since we had some storms today, I was expecting at least one power |
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outage. Since I wouldn't have minded this time, we have had good clean |
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power all day long. The storms are mostly gone too. Maybe another |
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raccoon will jump up on the high voltage transformer at the substation. |
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It takes them about a hour to clean up the well done critter parts. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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