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

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi,

2009/5/5 Diederik Hattingh <diederikjhattingh at gmail.com>

> 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
>

just to complete Daniel's answer: whenever you see WinPower, try the megatec
drivers (serial or USB), or better, the new blazer ones. These are
Centralion rebranded units.

please report back the results of your testing.

cheers,
Arnaud
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