[Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

[Julian H. Stacey]

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Comments: In-reply-to Doug Reynolds <mav at wastegate.net>
   message dated "Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:54:35 -0400."

> > So getting close to empty is probably not the reason for shuting down?
> according to the percent of battery left, i had about 69% left when it
> died..

I saw similar good bat. condition on LEDS on my APC, But, looking
at a battery's voltage only tells one the charge state. If it's
charged, but old & acquired a high internal resistance, the only
way to know is to use it to feed a load.  

I use old car headlamp batteries to test my 12V batteries (usually
one of 2 filaments dies, out of dipped & main beam, & the other is 
still usable).  Put as many as possible in parallel to suck power.
Of course that's an off line dismantled test, after the teeth
gnashing & "why on earth did it fail?" taking out of service ;-).

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Julian Stacey.  BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen  http://berklix.com
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