<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hello all ... <br></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Had a bad experience with the UPS yesterday </span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">(more on that below if you are interested), but <br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">the result is that I now looking for a UPS to replace </span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">the one I had.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The old one is a 1200VA APC Back-UPS that was </span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">over 15 years old. The battery was changed a few</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">times on it.<br></span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The new UPS should be </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">1500VA tower </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">style, and</span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">able to interface with Linux in order to shut down the </span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">home server if minutes remaining are below some <br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">threshold.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This one <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">at BestBuy </span>has good reviews<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">.</span><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/cyberpower-1500va-ups-battery-backup-gx1500u-fc/14538697" target="_blank">https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/cyberpower-1500va-ups-battery-backup-gx1500u-fc/14538697</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">This one is considerably less, but has less outlets (not </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">an issue in my use case), but is cheaper, and coupled </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">with Costco's excellent return policy, it is risk free.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The reviews (in French) mainly complain about a high </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">pitch noise. Since it will go in the basement, this may <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">not be noticeable.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.costco.ca/cyberpower-cst150uc-fc-battery-backup---ups-with-surge-protection.product.4000223432.html">https://www.costco.ca/cyberpower-cst150uc-fc-battery-backup---ups-with-surge-protection.product.4000223432.html</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">There is also this one at Staples, but the Costco one <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">has the same features for less.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.staples.ca/products/3040144-en-cyberpower-1500va-10-outlet-battery-backup-ups-system-black">https://www.staples.ca/products/3040144-en-cyberpower-1500va-10-outlet-battery-backup-ups-system-black</a></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">With APC UPS's, I used the apcupsd package, and it did what</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">needed to be done. About a year ago, I moved the cable from</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">UPS to go from it to my OpenWRT router, and configured apcupsd</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">on the router, so it can shutdown the server if the UPS has less</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">than x minutes left. That way, the router and internet will remain</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">available for longer in case of an outage, but not the server.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I would like to continue to use something similar, e.g. NUT</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">(Network UPS Tools) or even CyberPower's PowerPanel if <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">it came to that.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">What happened is that we had a short somewhere else in the</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">house that tripped a GFI circuit. I was trying to isolate where <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">the issue is by testing the circuit breakers from the panel. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">When the breaker that the UPS was on was tripped, the UPS</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">never came back. It said ON BATTERY instead of ON LINE. It <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">was reading the voltage as 99V instead of 115V or thereabouts. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The router shutdown the server, and kept the internet on as <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">planned. But here is the bad part: when I rebooted the server</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">the router kept getting status SHUTTING DOWN and voltage</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">as 99 from the UPS, and once the server booted, it was shutdown.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">There was no time to login and see what is going on.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I resorted to booting the server from Finnix on a USB key, mounting </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">the root disk, doing a chroot on that mountpoint, then doing an </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">apt purge apcupsd</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Finally, the server could boot again. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">So any thoughts welcome on UPS recommendations. <br></div><br></div></div>
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