On Wednesday 24 May 2006 06:15, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: > I plugged a single lamp into it, with a 60W bulb. > > At 3:40p I pulled the power. This is a sample of some readings I > took since then : > It seems to have discharged pretty rapidly for only carrying a > 60W bulb. The other issue is that at the current time its 4:44, and the > power is STILL ON TO THE LAMP! Why has it been saying for 34 minutes that > there is 0% battery available, but yet powering a load. And why if there is > a bulb, which should be a fairly good constant (Though I have seen the > bulb change intensity ever so little since its been on battery), is the > load number changing?
The measured load is varying.. If it truly is only a 60W globe then I would say the UPS is broken. > Please let me know if I might have a defective unit, if there is > some way to "calibrate it" or if I am not doing the testing/monitoring > properly. You may be able to do a battery test, try.. upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if there is a battery test you can do, I get.. kiruna:~>upscmd -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instant commands supported on UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: test.battery.start.quick - Unavailable test.battery.start.deep - Unavailable test.battery.stop - Stop the battery test load.off - Turn off the load immediately load.on - Turn on the load immediately (I think the "Unavailable" means the description is unknown, not that the test is unavailable. > (At the same time upslog wasn't any help: > 20060523 153139 NA NA NA [NA] NA NA Looks like you may have specifed the UPS to upslog incorrectly or upsd isn't running. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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