Nut upsuser - Nov 2006 - Calibrating the Battery on an MGE Ellipse Premium 1200

My new MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 is now working fine. I've tested
pulling the plug and the computer shuts down properly and comes back
up when I replug. The only strange behaviour is that when I put the
power back on the battery shows as being at 86%. If it was at 86% it
should have lasted longer. Is there any calibration step I can do? The
only commands the ups seems to support are:

$ upscmd -l mge1200@localhost
Instant commands supported on UPS [mge1200@localhost]:

load.off - Turn off the load immediately
load.on - Turn on the load immediately

Pedro.

On 11/4/06, Pedro C?rte-Real <pedro@pedrocr.net>
wrote:
> My new MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 is now working fine. I've tested
> pulling the plug and the computer shuts down properly and comes back
> up when I replug.
Saw your other thread discussing HAL - is your current setup using NUT
to determine when to shut down, or is NUT just telling another
subsystem when the UPS is on battery power (which might just use a
timer, instead of waiting for a low battery condition)?
> The only strange behaviour is that when I put the
> power back on the battery shows as being at 86%. If it was at 86% it
> should have lasted longer. Is there any calibration step I can do? The
> only commands the ups seems to support are:
>
> $ upscmd -l mge1200@localhost
> Instant commands supported on UPS [mge1200@localhost]:
>
> load.off - Turn off the load immediately
> load.on - Turn on the load immediately
What about variables?

Try:

$ upsrw mge1200@localhost

The "battery.charge.low" might be set to a high percentage.

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- Charles Lepple