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Hi, I just acquired a Ritmo AS-800VA. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out of the box with nut - so I had to do a bit of reverse engineering on the protocol to get it working. Am now posting my findings here in the hope it will get this added to the next release. There are also 1000VA and 12000VA versions that this should work with. The protocol is very similar to the megatec protocol - although simpler. Like megatec - it responds to a 'Q1' request. The response is slightly different - instead of the megatec 46 character reply string - the ritmo unit replies with a 35 character str...

Hi, Running a bunch of CentOS servers on 2U supermicro equipment, usually with 8 drives on Adaptec SmartRAID V or LSI Megaraid. In designing a rack in a data center, the question arises as to how to measure the amperage the server uses, prior to investing in power drops that actually do that for you, even remotely, for about $260.00-300USD per unit. This number is the important one these days