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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

>  incidentally with the smartups you can query the ups for the
>  amount of runtime left so you know how much life is left in the
>  battery, the ups self-tests this periodically and you can send
>  a command to it to do this.  Very useful.

	That's also true for the BackUPS Pro providing you get the
right cable (I used the -0095A) and the right software (PowerChute
Personal Edition (Windows) or apcupsd (FreeBSD)).


				Robert Huff