[Nut-upsdev] Bad news - my UPS has died. Good news - my UPS has died

[Eric S. Raymond]

My UPS died two nights ago.  From the symptoms, including the fact
that the event took the motherboard of my main machine with it and the
unreasonable amount of heat the UPS was generating immediately after,
I believe this was a genuine fried-brains failure of the control
electronics, not a mere battery death.  The old UPS (a Belkin FVC1200)
has been packed off to a recycler, and the motherboard hurriedly
replaced.

The good news, for you guys anyway, is that becoming active in NUT
again just became much more interesting :-) I had unfinished business
with revising the NUT documentation that I had let slide because of
being a lead on one project (gpsd) and a senior dev on another (Battle
For Wesnoth).  Now I have every reason to finish that job, because I
shall need to re-familiarize myself with the NUT installation and
configuration process anyway.  In parallel, I will update the UPS
HOWTO, <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/UPS-HOWTO/introduction.html>.

I have not yet selected a replacement UPS.  There is no urgent need
for me to do so; where I live (mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S.) it is
the dead of winter and the absolutely least risky time of the year for
events like blackouts and electrical storms.  I have about three
months before our summer storm season really threatens.  Rather than
buy a UPS instantly, I would prefer to do some research on the state
of the market in 2009 and allow others to benefit from what I learn.

Accordingly, I have at least three sets of questions that I will pose
to the NUT list as separate notes in order to start off topic threads.
The answers to these questions will inform my buying decision, will
be directly updated in a near-future update to the UPS HOWTO, and will
determine how much and what kind of work I put in on NUT during the
next few months.
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