[Nut-upsuser] Re: PowerWalker UPS - Re-branded Mustek ?

[Carlos Rodrigues]

Go for powermust. The mustek driver right now only has a subset of
powermust's functionality.

As for the output of upslog showing an additional "NA" for
powermust... that's a bug... it should be "input.frequency" and not
"output.frequency". :)


On 3/27/06, devzero at web.de <devzero at web.de> wrote:
> Hello !
>
> first off, thank you all for making this piece of software.
> from what i have seen so far this seems to be a really mature and advanced tool for all sorts of UPS models !
>
> I`d like to tell that I own a UPS which isn`t listed on the compatibility list, but seems to be compatible.
>
> It is a PowerWalker - see this at http://powerwalker.com/de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=63&Itemid=106
>
> It was damn cheap and I bought it just for testing, if such cheap UPS would fit to "low end needs".
>
> From what I can tell for now, i`m quite satisfied - I have a little homeserver running with this for over a year now and it works fine. (From time to time I do a test and plug the cable and all works continues running).  The thing that ever annoyed me with this UPS is the big fat java-based control software. Even the agent running on the server is big fat java-crap.
>
> A year ago I came across this project and didn`t find my model on the list.
> I lost interest because of this but now a year later I thought: "hey, let`s look again" - but still not being listed.....
>
> On the PowerWalker website, I read that the person behind that company was related to Mustek before - so I thought, that there is a chance that the PowerWalker is a rebranded Mustek. I downloaded the source and grepped it for "mustek" and saw: hey, there is a driver - so I gave it a try and it really seems that my UPS is a re-branded Mustek.
>
> with the mustek driver - upsc gives:
>
> battery.charge: 97.5
> battery.voltage: 13.6
> driver.name: mustek
> driver.version: 2.0.3
> driver.version.internal: 0.2
> input.frequency: 50.1
> input.voltage: 228.5
> output.voltage: 228.5
> ups.load: 014
> ups.mfr: Mustek
> ups.model: PowerMust
> ups.status: OL
>
> upslog gives:
>
> 20060326 165042 95.0 228.5 013 [OL] NA 50.1
>
> With the powermust driver (tested the next day)  i get:
>
> battery.charge: 100.0
> battery.voltage: 13.7
> battery.voltage.nominal: 12.0
> driver.name: powermust
> driver.version: 2.0.3
> driver.version.internal: 1.1
> input.voltage: 230.7
> input.voltage.fault: 230.7
> input.voltage.maximum: 231.1
> input.voltage.minimum: 230.7
> output.frequency: 50.1
> output.voltage: 230.7
> output.voltage.target.battery: 220.0
> ups.delay.shutdown: 2
> ups.delay.start: 3
> ups.load: 13.0
> ups.mfr: Mustek
> ups.model: PowerMust
> ups.serial: unknown
> ups.status: OL
>
> upslog gives:
> 20060327 194453 100.0 230.7 13.0 [OL] NA NA
>
> I didn`t have time to do in-depth test, but  I think this UPS will probably work fine with this software.
>
> Does somebody own a PowerWalker and can acknowledge this?
> What additional tests should I do to make sure compatibility is "sufficient" ?
> For example, i`m unsure what driver should I use - I thought "sure - take powermust" - but why does upslog show less information than with mustek driver (it shows two fields "NA") ?
>
> Anyway - i`m happy that I seem to have native linux support for my UPS now.
>
> regards
>
> roland k.
>
> systems engineer
>
> ps:
> Furthermore, there seems some inconsistency between driver.list and website:
>
> # Network UPS Tools driver.list
> #
> # This file is used to build the compat.html on the web server.  Any line
> # with exactly 4 arguments will be turned into an entry on there.
> # Naturally, it is read by parseconf, so the usual escaping tricks are
> # allowed if you need to insert something unusual.
>
> Is compat.html really built from this file or is this just outdated information ?
> For example, I don`t find information about the fact, that Mustek UPS is known to NUT. (BTW: can NUT do autodetection? this should help others who donŽt have such luck or which are not happy to do "experiments")
>
> pps:
> sorry for crossposting - but i thought this was probably of interest for both users and developers - and since traffic isn`t very high......
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Carlos Rodrigues