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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Diederik Hattingh wrote:
> 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.

The last time I saw some Java software for a UPS it had its own JRE 
embedded.. they used a portable language in a very non portable way.

I seem to recall after some investigation it was actually megatec but I 
never had the opportunity to try NUT on it (it was in Indonesia and I 
am in Australia).

The megatec page does suggest you may need the dtr, rts & sendpace 
parameters before it will work.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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