Windows 7 Pro x64 Eaton 3S550 (brand new, battery mfg 8/15/2012) NUT 2.6.5-3 ups.status: OL CHRG CHRG was present even though it has been plugged in a few days turned on and battery.charge was 100%. Log includes me running upsc and removing power long enough to see that battery.charge will decrease. This UPS doesn't have controlled outlets despite what the upsc output says. --- I've come across an undocumented feature on this UPS. Holding down the power button when the UPS is off seems to put it into some kind of config mode. If it's a sensitivity adjustment, NUT is not reporting it. It says it does a self-test when turned on, but it doesn't appear to be going on-battery. I'm used to APC UPS's where holding down the button does a self-test, so that's why I stumbled onto that. Now I don't know what I might have changed. Tomorrow I'll go see what Eaton software I should DL and try that, unless someone enlightens me before I get to that. --- I had to reinstall to get a proper usb_device.inf. Is there an easier way to regenerate that file when dealing with multiple UPS types on a test system? --- I noticed that NUT doesn't provide a way to update the battery date on UPS's which I've been able to previously with other software. I assume the bad battery warning is unaffected by this parameter? Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Eaton 3S550.7z Type: application/octet-stream Size: 14075 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20121010/81b03fb0/attachment-0001.obj>
?> From: nut-upsuser-bounces+fredericbohe=eaton.com at lists.alioth.debian.org [nut-upsuser-bounces+fredericbohe=eaton.com at lists.alioth.debian.org] on behalf of Kris Jordan [nut.kj at sagebrushnetworks.com]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:00 AM > To: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org > Subject: [Nut-upsuser] Eaton 3S550 > > > I had to reinstall to get a proper usb_device.inf. Is there an easier > way to regenerate that file when dealing with multiple UPS types on a > test system?Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but maybe running "wdi-simple.exe" (in the "others" directory of your NUT installation) after plugging your new device might help. Regards, Fred ----------------------------- -----------------------------
Kris Jordan wrote, On 10/10/2012 11:00 PM:> Windows 7 Pro x64 > Eaton 3S550 (brand new, battery mfg 8/15/2012) > NUT 2.6.5-3I have more to report... This UPS is waking my test system from sleep mode. The USB connection is also broken in the process (the device manager entry is still present though), if I restart the driver I just get a "no matching HID device" error. I have to re-plug the USB connection to fix. The log includes me sleeping the system and forcing the UPS on-battery, causing the system to wake. The system will eventually wake w/o the UPS going on battery too. I've not had this happen with the APC's. I've re-tested a APC ES350 and found that it doesn't wake the system nor breaks the driver, however the driver does sometimes crash! I've attached a log of that happening, it's very easy to reproduce after a couple sleep cycles. The Eaton is going to power an always-on system, so not a big deal for me. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 3S550_ES350 sleep.7z Type: application/octet-stream Size: 16425 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20121011/c644fe19/attachment-0001.obj>
Kris Jordan wrote, On 10/10/2012 11:00 PM:> Windows 7 Pro x64 > Eaton 3S550 (brand new, battery mfg 8/15/2012) > NUT 2.6.5-3 > > I've come across an undocumented feature on this UPS. Holding down the > power button when the UPS is off seems to put it into some kind of > config mode. If it's a sensitivity adjustment, NUT is not reporting it.I found what it does, it picks from three threshold values: 84-142, 96-138, and 75-144. I believe 84-142 was the default. Installed Personal Solution-Pac, it says 'charging' too. And besides an annoying communication failure warning dialog after waking the system from sleep, it has no problem reestablishing communication after a bit. The UPS will still cause the system to wake though. There is no power management tab in device manager where I could prevent the device from waking the system.
Kris Jordan wrote, On 10/10/2012 11:00 PM:> Windows 7 Pro x64 > Eaton 3S550 (brand new, battery mfg 8/15/2012) > NUT 2.6.5-3Pretty much done testing this UPS on Windows. I couldn't disable the beeper using NUT, and even after doing so successfully with the Solution-Pac, it still says enabled (in NUT). Though I thank Eaton for not using an obnoxious (loud) beeper. I also get ERR VAR-NOT-SUPPORTED for input.transfer.low/high. This is perhaps normal because of the way this UPS sets the value in a combined fashion. I did not log this happening. If wanted, I can test it more. Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: usbhid-ups.7z Type: application/octet-stream Size: 12244 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20121012/14898b2a/attachment.obj>