[Nut-upsuser] Re: NUT mustek UPS driver (fwd)

[Carlos Rodrigues]

Ok. Now I need to know what voltage the UPS reports when it is at 100%
capacity, and also the voltate reported when it goes into "low
battery".

On 5/30/06, Alexander Kostadinov <avalon at dolphin-3.bg> wrote:
> Hallo again. Below I give you the information you told me to give. I just
> want ot mantion that 2,31V should be the voltage of the battery cells. One
> friend told me that it should be 1,2V so every battery should be 12V and
> the the 3 batteries in the unit should be 36V. (The UPS has 3 batteries of
> 12V - explained in the documentation).
> The mustek driver works fine but gives wrong battery capacity percents
> because it also expects battery but not cell voltage.
>
> On Fri, 26 May 2006, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
>
> > "mustek" is all but deprecated, so the effort should be to get
> > powermust/megatec working.
> >
> > Since you have the latest development code installed, can you please
> > run "/path/to/megatec -DDDD -a the_name_for_your_ups" (this without
> > starting NUT normally - i.e. without upsd, upsmon, etc) and send me
> > the output?
>
> Here is the web page:
> http://www.mustek.de/eng_/html/produkte/ups1000online.htm
>
> I paste here the output from the command:
> debug level is '4'
> Starting UPS detection process...
> Attempting to detect the UPS...
> Sending "F" command...
> "F" command successful.
> Sending "Q1" command...
> "Q1" command successful.
> Attempting to detect the UPS...
> Sending "F" command...
> "F" command successful.
> Sending "Q1" command...
> "Q1" command successful.
> Attempting to detect the UPS...
> Sending "F" command...
> "F" command successful.
> Sending "Q1" command...
> "Q1" command successful.
> Attempting to detect the UPS...
> Sending "F" command...
> "F" command successful.
> Sending "Q1" command...
> "Q1" command successful.
> Attempting to detect the UPS...
> Sending "F" command...
> "F" command successful.
> Sending "Q1" command...
> "Q1" command successful.
> 0 out of 5 detection attempts failed (minimum failures: 2).
> Asking for UPS information ("I" command)...
> UPS doesn't return any information about itself.
> Megatec protocol UPS detected.
> Asking for UPS power ratings ("F" command)...
> UPS power ratings: 220.0 005 036.0 50.0
> Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
> UPS status: 226.5 227.9 221.0 031 50.0 2.31 25.0 00000001
> This UPS has an unsupported combination of battery voltage/number of
> batteries. The "battery.charge" value will be bogus.
> Done setting up the UPS.
> Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
> UPS doesn't return any information about its status.
> dstate_init: sock /var/state/ups/D3_main open on fd 5
> Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
> UPS doesn't return any information about its status.
> Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
> UPS doesn't return any information about its status.
> Asking for UPS status ("Q1" command)...
>
>
> >
> > The output should help me figure out why you are getting data stale
> > (may be a timing issue).
> >
> > Also, can you point me to the mustek product page for that UPS?
> >
> > On 5/26/06, Alexander Kostadinov <avalon at dolphin-3.bg> wrote:
> >> Hallo again. I just wrote you and just found the Megatec protocol page.
> >> 2.31 must be the cell power but I think here it is too high (should be
> >> 1....). And how could I know the nominal,min and max power?
> >> Just to say I tried the latest 2.1 code and the megatec driver, but it
> >> also reports stale data...
> >
> >
> > --
> > Carlos Rodrigues
> >
>


-- 
Carlos Rodrigues