Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex MARS

2006-04-22 Thread lonely wolf
On 04/22/2006 07:41 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: Right now megatec just calculates a linear approximation. It doesn't give accurate values, but it is enough to have a fuzzy idea of the charge left (like saying it's almost noon instead of it's 12:45), and I'm not seeing how to plot a more

[Nut-upsuser] charge calculations (ex Ablerex MARS)

2006-04-22 Thread lonely wolf
On 04/22/2006 08:17 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: I think that the solution that APC and MGE apparently use (probably others as well) on their PDC HID UPSes is better - do the charge calculation in an on-board microcontroller, and calibrate it as part of the final QA stage. If the manufacturer

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Powerware 3105 - SuSE 10.0

2006-04-22 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 21 April 2006 07:00, Kjell Claesson wrote: Hi Graham, First of all i would like you to test this. Comment out the 'user = nut' line in the ups.conf. #user = nut Then run the driver this way. ./bcmxcp_usb -DD -u root -a pw3105 If this returns anything you have a problem with

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex MARS

2006-04-22 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
It was a silly bug, I've fixed it, should work now. On 4/22/06, lonely wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/22/2006 07:41 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: Right now megatec just calculates a linear approximation. It doesn't give accurate values, but it is enough to have a fuzzy idea of the charge

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex MARS

2006-04-22 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On 4/22/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, seeing a maximum voltage of 3V on a unit that is nominally 96V seems wrong, even if that is 8 batteries of 12V each. Could there be a conversion error? Perhaps 2.3V should be 23V? It looks strange to me too, but that's actually what