Re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
Matt Navarre writes: > > I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers > > (420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have > > serial ports only. (They are 5+ years old.) > > Does the 650 work well with FreeBSD? I can get a refurb 650 from > APC for the s

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > incidentally with the smartups you can query the ups for the > amount of runtime left so you know how much life is left in the > battery, the ups self-tests this periodically and you can send > a command to it to do this. Very useful. That's also true for

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
rsday, October 21, 2004 8:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Robert Huff > Subject: Re: APC UPS question > > > On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote: > > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. A

Re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Matt Navarre
On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you > > sure your looking at the right thing? > > I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers > (420 and 650) of which are sitting

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Huff
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you > sure your looking at the right thing? I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers (420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have serial ports only. (They

re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread John Koepke
I have purchased a few APC Ups's from a vendor on Ebay. Wonderful to work with. a few weeks ago the UPS I purchased about 1 and a half years ago had a electrical problem and the ups failed. He sent me another unit and it arrived in just a few days. I Paid $179 for a APC Smart 1400 RM UPS. I cu

Re: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
L PROTECTED] Subject: APC UPS question I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the APC Back-UPS Pro 280VA "Just Works" with FreeBSD 4-STABLE and apcupsd? As far as I can tell apcupsd support for usb on FreeBSD is not reliable, but this one's ser

RE: APC UPS question

2004-10-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
APS themselves also sells refurbs off their website. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Navarre > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: APC UPS question > > > I

APC UPS question

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Navarre
I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the APC Back-UPS Pro 280VA "Just Works" with FreeBSD 4-STABLE and apcupsd? As far as I can tell apcupsd support for usb on FreeBSD is not reliable, but this one's serial and affordable but I'd like to know if it works befor