Just going to reply to this one bit for now: The computer used to be a gaming
computer, converted this past fall into a file server when I lacked time to
play any games in a year.
>> Additionally I spent $34 on a video card today that reduces my power
>> consumption by 150Watts, resulting in a
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 323, Issue 9, Message: 3
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:18:01 -0500 Ryan Coleman wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> > On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> >> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minute
On Thu, August 12, 2010 8:14 pm, Al Plant wrote:
>> #3. Thats why setting the bios "not" to self boot would work. (Stopping
>> the bios from turning the server on after an outage.) Someone would have
>> to check the power status manually before throwing the switch manually
>> to make it come up aft
Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote:
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
He thinks that at 500W needed it would give
On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:49 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the server at,
>> say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the process and runs out
>> of battery mid-way through t
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the
server at, say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the
process and runs out of battery mid-way through the boot before it
gets the chance to load the UPS controller.
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>>>
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Ryan Coleman wrote:
> > He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on
> > a 1400VA.
>
> That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant,
> because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery.
> Those numbers only give an upper lim
On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:01 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
>
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
>>> 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minu
Ryan Coleman wrote:
> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on
> a 1400VA.
That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant,
because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery.
Those numbers only give an upper limit on the power that
the UPS can han
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
>> 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery.
>> If full power has not been returned, shu
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
> 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery.
> If full power has not been returned, shut down the server but leave the
> modem (w/ wireless) and
Thanks, Chuck.
I talked with a former colleague that has a lot of experience in specing out
UPS requirements (between battery-ready and generator-ready backups at the
office they have up to 5 minutes of battery backup before the gas generator is
needed with a 128-hour recharge time just to supp
Hi, Ryan--
On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Total: 495W
>
> According to a calculator if I enter all that information:
> http://www.csgnetwork.com/upssizecalc.html
> It says that it will use 693VA.
That sounds reasonable. The better PSUs have "80 Plus" certification for
effic
I know that APC's website states this load on this unit results in this runtime.
However I do not trust these figures, typically, when coming from smaller
manufacturers than APC.
I am looking at a 1400VA / 980W UPS to run a single server with a usually not
on monitor, a DSL modem and a simple s
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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