On Monday 03 April 2017 11:41:56 Jon Bendtsen wrote: > On 03/04/17 17.24, Roger Price wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > >> On 03/04/17 17.10, Roger Price wrote: > >>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > >>>> Power seem to be lost immediately. > >>>> But my APC Smart-UPS 1500 always reported everything OK. > >>>> battery.charge : 100 > >>> > >>> ... > >>> > >>>> battery.mfr.date : 2005/08/26 > >>> > >>> Hi, Could you confirm that the battery is nearly 12 years old? > >>> Roger > >> > >> yeah, it most likely is that old > > > > That's probably the cause of the immediate power loss. A new > > battery should fix the problem. Roger > > yeah a new battery will most likely make it go away. However, that is > not why I wrote the email. I wrote the email because I want NUT to > tell me much more clearly that something is wrong, and NUT currently > does not do that. > > > > JonB > Nut, IIRC, can do a periodic battery test by putting it offline, using the battery, for a predetermined length of time, weekly, monthly etc, and IIRC recording the battery voltage just as it switches back to line power. The comparative voltage level at the switchback point is a pretty good indication of the battery condition, and I think that could be used to trigger an "I need a new battery" email message well ahead of an unexpected total fail shutdown.
I have a 20kw nat gas fired standby generator thats typically live in 5 seconds since the Mrs. has COPD, so I have never set that up here, but I believe you can find that in the Nut docs. Unless its been elided in the last 15 years. :( Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
