<html><head></head><body>Myself, I'd be in it with a meter when I tested. Quite often the sampling intervals are too long on this type of stuff to catch quick events like this.<br><br>- Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 17, 2021 12:24:04 PM CDT, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">On August 17, 2021 7:12:19 PM GMT+03:00, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tuesday 17 August 2021 11:11:49 Manuel Wolfshant wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">On August 17, 2021 5:57:28 PM GMT+03:00, Roger Price <br></blockquote><roger@rogerprice.org> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, Gene Heskett wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"> Which may explain why tiger-direct had them so cheap, $39.95 a year<br> ago.<br><br> But as long as it holds up long enough to get my 20kw standby<br> running, about 4 or 5 seconds, I'm a happy camper.<br></blockquote><br>Don't take the risk. That standby generator needs to start. Can you<br> open the tiger-direct special and extract the battery? Perhaps that<br> will give a date, and an idea of what is needed to replace it.<br><br>Roger<hr>Nut-upsuser mailing list<br>Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net<br><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser</a><br></blockquote><br> I second that. I've seen UPSes dying instantly when switching the load<br> to a dead but apparently kicking battery.<br><br></blockquote>I've a better idea than that. Has anyone a script that looks at upsc <br>output say every 15 seconds and finding an ONBAT in that timestamps it <br>and writes the battery voltage to a log, not on the u-sd but to an SDD <br>for later checking of the battery's performance? I have 380 G's of SSD's <br>on that pi, and everything in the high traffic category but /tmp has <br>been moved to the SSD's. The u-sd gets about 50 megs a day of write <br>traffic, and the wear leveling has now handled that for a year, its a <br>64G card with about 12G used so it has plenty of playroom<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><hr>Nut-upsuser mailing list<br>Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net<br><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser</a><br></blockquote><br><br>Cheers, Gene Heskett<br></blockquote><br>There is a logger included in the nut package which does exactly what you want.<hr>Nut-upsuser mailing list<br>Nut-upsuser@alioth-lists.debian.net<br><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>