On Tue, September 18, 2012 9:03 am, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:48 pm, Dale wrote: >>> I still have not hooked this thing up yet. We have storms predicted >>> here over the next couple days so I figure I will get a chance to >>> switch >>> whether I want to reboot or not. :/ I live close to the end of the >>> power lines, phone lines and everything else including the road. If >>> anything happens, we lose the connection. There are lots of trees >>> between here and town. >>> >>> I'll post the results when I get switched over. Then we have a answer >>> to the question. >> Dale, >> >> A good way to test a new UPS is to use it to power a light and hook up >> the >> USB/Serial/... to a computer to see what information you can get out of >> it >> in the various "normal" situations of "plugged in" and "not plugged in" >> >> You don't need to reboot your machine for that. :) >> > > I need to reboot when I plug the power cord up tho. I have the UPS > plugged in and the battery is charged. I even hooked it up to a older > rig that was given to me and the UPS works fine. I just have not done > anything as far as hooking it to my main rig yet. I also have not > hooked up the data part, just the power part. I was running memtest on > the older rig to test some ram so no need trying to hook up the data > part on that. ;-) > > Plus, aren't you supposed to only unplug/plug a serial cable when it is > off? I'm not sure if they are sensitive to that but pretty sure they > were a long time ago.
Not sure about Serial, I always did even when switched on when using external modems in the past and never did have a problem there. But if you want to see what USB gives as info, you could plug the USB-cable into your computer and see what info you can get? -- Joost
