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...and found that the variable fc.fullvolts is the result of querying parameter 67 from the UPS. This parameter is defined per Ferrups Tip 503 as: "The battery voltage at which the UPS sound a High Battery alarm" A better value to use in determining the percent battery voltage would be fc.idealbvolts which is calculated in the driver source... I propose the following patch to fix the battery.charge (% battery full) reading. --- bestfcom.c.orig 2012-07-31 12:38:59.000000000 -0500 +++ bestfcom.c 2013-05-11 09:39:52.155279710 -0500 @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ /* Compute battery percent left based...

I have an old (1997) Best Ferrups (model FE18KVA) that I am trying to monitor for the first time, but all the Best drivers fail to communicate with it. In ups_sync() in bestuferrups.c and bestfcom.c, the "time" command is sent and a one-line response is read. However, on my UPS, that command returns the current time and then prompts for a new time setting. I worked around that by just