Nut upsuser - Aug 2021 - CyberPower CP625HGa shuts down 3 watt load in 2 minutes

On August 17, 2021 7:12:19 PM GMT+03:00, Gene Heskett <gheskett at
shentel.net> wrote:
>On Tuesday 17 August 2021 11:11:49 Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>
>> On August 17, 2021 5:57:28 PM GMT+03:00, Roger Price 
><roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
>> >On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Which may explain why tiger-direct had them so cheap, $39.95 a
year
>> >> ago.
>> >>
>> >> But as long as it holds up long enough to get my 20kw standby
>> >> running, about 4 or 5 seconds, I'm a happy camper.
>> >
>> >Don't take the risk.  That standby generator needs to start. 
Can you
>> > open the tiger-direct special and extract the battery?  Perhaps
that
>> > will give a date, and an idea of what is needed to replace it.
>> >
>> >Roger
>> >
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>> I second that. I've seen UPSes dying instantly when switching the
load
>> to a dead but apparently kicking battery.
>>
>I've a better idea than that. Has anyone a script that looks at upsc 
>output say every 15 seconds and finding an ONBAT in that timestamps it 
>and writes the battery voltage to a log, not on the u-sd but to an SDD 
>for later checking of the battery's performance? I have 380 G's of
SSD's
>on that pi, and everything in the high traffic category but /tmp has 
>been moved to the SSD's. The u-sd gets about 50 megs a day of write 
>traffic, and the wear leveling has now handled that for a year, its a 
>64G card with about 12G used so it has plenty of playroom
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>Cheers, Gene Heskett
There is a logger included in the nut package which does exactly what you want.

Myself, I'd be in it with a meter when I tested. Quite often the sampling
intervals are too long on this type of stuff to catch quick events like this.

- Tim

On August 17, 2021 12:24:04 PM CDT, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at
nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
>On August 17, 2021 7:12:19 PM GMT+03:00, Gene Heskett <gheskett at
shentel.net> wrote:
>>On Tuesday 17 August 2021 11:11:49 Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>
>>> On August 17, 2021 5:57:28 PM GMT+03:00, Roger Price 
>><roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
>>> >On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> >> Which may explain why tiger-direct had them so cheap,
$39.95 a year
>>> >> ago.
>>> >>
>>> >> But as long as it holds up long enough to get my 20kw
standby
>>> >> running, about 4 or 5 seconds, I'm a happy camper.
>>> >
>>> >Don't take the risk.  That standby generator needs to
start.  Can you
>>> > open the tiger-direct special and extract the battery? 
Perhaps that
>>> > will give a date, and an idea of what is needed to replace it.
>>> >
>>> >Roger
>>> >
>>> >_______________________________________________
>>> >Nut-upsuser mailing list
>>> >Nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net
>>>
>https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
>>>
>>> I second that. I've seen UPSes dying instantly when switching
the load
>>> to a dead but apparently kicking battery.
>>>
>>I've a better idea than that. Has anyone a script that looks at upsc
>>output say every 15 seconds and finding an ONBAT in that timestamps it 
>>and writes the battery voltage to a log, not on the u-sd but to an SDD 
>>for later checking of the battery's performance? I have 380 G's
of SSD's
>>on that pi, and everything in the high traffic category but /tmp has 
>>been moved to the SSD's. The u-sd gets about 50 megs a day of write 
>>traffic, and the wear leveling has now handled that for a year, its a 
>>64G card with about 12G used so it has plenty of playroom
>>> _______________________________________________
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https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
>>
>>
>>Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
>There is a logger included in the nut package which does exactly what you
want.
>
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On Tuesday 17 August 2021 13:24:04 Manuel Wolfshant wrote:

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> On August 17, 2021 7:12:19 PM GMT+03:00, Gene Heskett 
<gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> There is a logger included in the nut package which does exactly what
> you want.
>
Its name?  That nut-2.7.4 was built on that pi, and I may not have had 
that part built at the time.

Thank you.

[...]

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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