Greetings Jamie/Peter, I also have a F6C1500-TW-RK which I use with nut. However in my experiences the USB driver has been unstable to the point of avoidance. I have used the newhidups driver on 2 occasions on 2 different FreeBSD 5.5-stable machines and 2 different physical devices of this model.
What happened was that the device detected, and showed initial output such as follows: battery.charge: 100 battery.charge.low: 30 battery.charge.warning: 30 battery.runtime: 120 battery.type: PbAc battery.voltage: 0.2 battery.voltage.nominal: 273 driver.name: newhidups driver.parameter.port: auto driver.version: 2.0.4 driver.version.data: Belkin HID 0.1 driver.version.internal: 0.28 input.frequency: 59.9 input.frequency.nominal: 60 input.transfer.high: 140 input.transfer.high.max: 144 input.transfer.high.min: 140 input.transfer.low: 88 input.transfer.low.max: 88 input.transfer.low.min: 84 input.voltage: 119.1 input.voltage.nominal: 120 output.frequency: 60.0 output.voltage: 119.6 ups.beeper.status: enabled ups.delay.restart: 0 ups.delay.shutdown: 0 ups.firmware: 1 ups.load: 19 ups.mfr: Belkin ups.model: unknown ups.power.nominal: 1500 ups.serial: ups.status: OL CHRG ups.test.result: No test initiated ups.type: offline The problem was that both times I tried to use this, the device simply powered off about 10-15 minutes after starting the NUT software, and without any warning or indication in the logs why it happened. The 'belkin' serial driver does also work, and does not experience this stability issue when I use it. The output with the 'belkin' driver contains much less information: battery.charge: 100 battery.temperature: 000 battery.voltage: 27.2 driver.name: belkin driver.parameter.port: /dev/cuaa1 driver.version: 2.0.4 driver.version.internal: 0.21 input.frequency: 59.9 input.transfer.high: 0.0 input.transfer.low: 0.0 input.voltage: 118.9 output.frequency: 59.9 output.voltage: 119.5 ups.firmware: 01 ups.load: 017 ups.mfr: BELKIN ups.model: F6C1500-TW-RK ups.status: OL ups.temperature: 000 - Evan [EMAIL PROTECTED] / systems admin @ www.probsd.net _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser