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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:22:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Kott <dakott@alpha.delta.edu>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UPSd and APC Back-UPS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818182129.5946A-100000@kott.my.domain>
In-Reply-To: <19980818115020.36237@matti.ee>

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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Vallo Kallaste wrote:

> David Kott <dakott@alpha.delta.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone actually gotten UPSd 2.0.1.6 to work with a homebrew cable?  I
> > recently purchased an APC Back-UPS 500 and tracked down a hack'd cable
> > callout that allegdly duplicates the APC part.
> 
> As you say, you have APC Back-UPS, not Smart-UPS. So, why you use upsd, which 
> is for Smart UPS's from APC ?? I use bkpupsd from the ports collection with my 
> APC Back-UPS Pro 650 and it works great.
> 
> My cable from APC has more than four resistors, one diode and transistor also. 
> Without disassembling it's very difficult to say how the real scheme looks 
> out. If you want, I can send you my cable sheme.
<snip>


Ahh.. you are correct.  I will give that application a try.

							-d


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