[Nut-upsuser] Need help identifying UPS for use with NUT

[Diederik Hattingh]

Hi there.
I bought a generic UPS from a local (South African) hardware company,
Sahara.  They call it an "Electra 1000 Plus".  From what I am told it is a
1000 VA line interactive UPS.  It comes with "WinPower" Java based software
that I couldn't get to work. (Crashes on start-up, without any explanation.)

I would like to know if any one on this mailing list could help me to figure
out what NUT driver I am supposed to use.  I tried megatec, without success.
(/lib/nut/megatec -DDDD -a UPS1 returns with "Q1 => FAILED [timeout]" 5
times ) A potential gotcha is that I am using a USB to serial device to talk
to the UPS.  It looks like it has installed correctly (dmesg tells me: "usb
2-1: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0").  The USB-Serial adapter
is connected to the serial cable that came with the UPS.

Some pictures of the UPS and parts of its manual can be found
here<http://picasaweb.google.com/diederikjhattingh/Public?feat=email#>(The
circuit board is just the switch.  I couldn't yet get to the serial
interface part of the UPS. Will still upload a picture of that when I get to
it.)

I am using Gentoo with NUT version 2.2.2

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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