[Nut-upsdev] TrippLite USB UPS

[Patrick Krepps]

Peter

First of all apologies for replying to an older message. I seem to have 
deleted your latest reply by mistake.

I just wanted to let you know that I have not had a chance to do another thing 
with this UPS since my last message. Been too busy with other "must do" 
items. I may not get a chance to update you on my progress for another week 
or so. I will let you know how I am making out then.

Patrick

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:27 pm, you wrote:
> Patrick Krepps wrote:
> > Hi Peter, I've done the "svn update", and finally got to do a bit of
> > testing and playing. So far things are looking pretty good. The UPS
> > status is "OL" (not sure why it showed "OB" yesterday), and all of
> > the commands seem to function as advertised.
> >
> > > Congratulations, your device is now 60% supported. I have added the
> > > product ID and most of the new data paths.
> > >
> > > You can do "svn update" and build the driver. It should now run out of
> > > the box and you can follow the instructions in INSTALL to set up your
> > > system.
> > >
> > > Before it is 100% supported, I need you to:
> > >
> > > - run upsd and verify the output of "upsc" and report anything
> > >   suspicious (such as a voltage of 500V, or a temperature of 70
> > >   Celsius, or anything like that). [10%]
> >
> > There are a couple of outputs that I am not sure if they are right or
> > not:
> >
> > battery.runtime: 1910		# Is that seconds?
>
> Yes, seconds. See docs/new-names.txt
>
> > battery.voltage: 5.2			# Off by a factor of 10?
>
> Right. Another TrippLite device had a bug, reporting a battery voltage
> that was 10 times too high. I compensated by inserting a division by
> 10. Your device does not have the bug, so I need to invent a more
> general fix.
>
> > ups.power: 302.0
> > ups.power.nominal: 1500		# Big difference in readings (?)
>
> This means that your currently attached equipment uses 302 VA of
> power, whereas 1500 VA is the maximum allowed. You could in principle
> power 5 times more equipment from this UPS (not recommended of course,
> as peak consumption can be much higher than typical consumption).
>
> > I've included the full output of upsc both on line and on battery below.
> >
> > > - also in "upsc", verify that ups.status shows the "OB" flag when the
> > >   UPS is on battery and the "LB" flag when the battery is low. Also
> > >   "OL" when the UPS is on line power. These are used by upsmon to
> > >   decide when to power down your machine. (Do not run upsmon yet when
> > >   you perform this test - you don't want your machine to actually
> > >   power off). [10%]
> > >
> > > - check if all or some of the instant commands are working. Candidates
> > >   are:
> > >
> > >   test.battery.start.quick
> > >   test.battery.start.deep
> > >   test.battery.stop
> > >
> > >   beeper.on    (these will only have an effect if the UPS is on
> > > battery) beeper.off   (these will only have an effect if the UPS is on
> > > battery)
> >
> > The above commands work just fine. I will have to wait until this weekend
> > to test the LB flag, and the rest of this. The instant commands logged
> > success in syslog, and there are no other log entries that look like
> > possible problems.
>
> Great.
>
> > >   *** WARNING: BEFORE TESTING THE FOLLOWING, PLUG YOUR COMPUTER INTO
> > >   *** THE WALL, NOT INTO THE UPS. Plug a desk lamp or similar into the
> > > UPS *** to see if the load is on or off.
> > >
> > >   load.off      
> > >   load.on
> > >   shutdown.return
> > >   shutdown.stop
> > >
> > >   [10%]
> > >
> > > - finally, check whether the "-k" option to "usbhid-ups" shuts off the
> > >   load. *** WARNING: SAME AS ABOVE ***. This is necessary for a proper
> > >   shutdown process. [10%]
> > >
> > > If all tests are positive, your UPS is 100% supported, and I will
> > > remove the "experimental" from data/driver.list. Otherwise, we might
> > > have to tinker a bit more.
> >
> > I will get back to you as soon as I have a chance to finish. In the
> > meantime, let me know if you need me to do anything else.
>
> Excellent. So it's about 86% supported so far (10% for OB/LB, 8% for
> upsc minus the voltage problem, 5% for instant commands, 0% for -k).
> I'll await your further report on the latter.
>
> -- Peter
>
> > # Full upsc output:
> >
> > # /usr/bin/ups/bin/upsc su1500 at localhost
> > battery.charge: 100
> > battery.charge.low: 25
> > battery.charge.warning: 50
> > battery.runtime: 1910
> > battery.temperature: 22
> > battery.type: PbAc
> > battery.voltage: 5.2
> > battery.voltage.nominal: 48.0
> > driver.name: usbhid-ups
> > driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> > driver.parameter.port: auto
> > driver.version: 2.1.0
> > driver.version.data: TrippLite HID 0.1 (experimental)
> > driver.version.internal: 0.30
> > input.frequency: 59.9
> > input.transfer.high: 138.0
> > input.transfer.low: 65.0
> > input.voltage: 124.8
> > input.voltage.nominal: 120
> > output.current: 2.80
> > output.frequency: 59.9
> > output.frequency.nominal: 60
> > output.voltage: 120.2
> > output.voltage.nominal: 120
> > ups.beeper.status: enabled
> > ups.delay.reboot: -1
> > ups.delay.restart: 0
> > ups.delay.shutdown: -1
> > ups.load: 24
> > ups.mfr: Tripp Lite
> > ups.model: TRIPP LITE UPS
> > ups.power: 302.0
> > ups.power.nominal: 1500
> > ups.serial: 9530ALCPS519400017
> > ups.status: OL
> >
> >
> > Ran downstairs and threw the breaker. Came back up to this output:
> >
> >
> > # /usr/bin/ups/bin/upsc su1500 at localhost
> > battery.charge: 98
> > battery.charge.low: 25
> > battery.charge.warning: 50
> > battery.runtime: 1889
> > battery.temperature: 22
> > battery.type: PbAc
> > battery.voltage: 4.8
> > battery.voltage.nominal: 48.0
> > driver.name: usbhid-ups
> > driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> > driver.parameter.port: auto
> > driver.version: 2.1.0
> > driver.version.data: TrippLite HID 0.1 (experimental)
> > driver.version.internal: 0.30
> > input.frequency: 0.0
> > input.transfer.high: 138.0
> > input.transfer.low: 65.0
> > input.voltage: 0.0
> > input.voltage.nominal: 120
> > output.current: 3.00
> > output.frequency: 60.0
> > output.frequency.nominal: 60
> > output.voltage: 120.2
> > output.voltage.nominal: 120
> > ups.beeper.status: enabled
> > ups.delay.reboot: -1
> > ups.delay.restart: 0
> > ups.delay.shutdown: -1
> > ups.load: 25
> > ups.mfr: Tripp Lite
> > ups.model: TRIPP LITE UPS
> > ups.power: 313.0
> > ups.power.nominal: 1500
> > ups.serial: 9530ALCPS519400017
> > ups.status: OB VRANGE