Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-17 Thread m . roth
speaking of UPS's... I -almost- ordered $300 worth of UPS replacement batteries today, but on a hunch, I swapped electronic modules with a twin UPS (the ERM is hotswappable on these 2U 3000VA units), and lo and behold, its the ERM thats faulty, not the battery pack. found a fleabay ERM for

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-17 Thread John R Pierce
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: speaking of UPS's... I -almost- ordered $300 worth of UPS replacement batteries today, but on a hunch, I swapped electronic modules with a twin UPS (the ERM is hotswappable on these 2U 3000VA units), and lo and behold, its the ERM thats faulty, not the battery pack.

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000 started connecting and disconnecting the USB connection. I brought

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread m . roth
on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000 started connecting and disconnecting the USB connection. I

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-16-2010 8:43 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-16-2010 8:43 AM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: on 3-2-2010 2:13 PM m.r...@5-cent.us spake the following: Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-16 Thread John R Pierce
speaking of UPS's... I -almost- ordered $300 worth of UPS replacement batteries today, but on a hunch, I swapped electronic modules with a twin UPS (the ERM is hotswappable on these 2U 3000VA units), and lo and behold, its the ERM thats faulty, not the battery pack. found a fleabay ERM for

[CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-02 Thread m . roth
Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000 started connecting and disconnecting the USB connection. I brought down and up the service, no joy. Finally, after googling, I

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ...that while the nominal voltage for the APC SmartUPS 3000 is 48V, the new batteries are showing 55.4V. lead acid batteries are 2.1-2.15V per cell when fully charged, and the trickle charging float voltage is more like 2.3V per cell. 2.3 * 6 cells/battery * 4