[gentoo-user] Redux: Any UPS recommendations?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:01:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
>   I think my UPS is dying.  Time to get a new one.  It's been years, so
> there may be new tech out there I don't know about.  My normal usage is
> * 1 LCD monitor 24"
> * 1 (sometimes 2) "desktop" PCs connected to the monitor
> * 1 ADSL router/modem

  I got an APC Back-UPS BX1300G-CN from the local Staples.  No worry
whatsoever about overloading this baby.  I'm currently running a
"torture test" with the monitor, the modem, and both PC's running.
They're both doing an update.  I set things up so that both are building
gcc at the same time.  Even so, the load indicator is only lighting up 2
of 5 bars, indicating approximately 40% of max load.  It might've been a
different story years ago back in the days of the Pentium 4 or AMD "space
heaters", plus add-on video cards.

  Being the geek that I am, I did RTFM the docs that came with the UPS.
It has an option to decide how much to allow voltage to vary before
switching over to battery power.  I selected the narrowest range, i.e.
the "sensitive electronics" setting.

  One question about the configuration of apcupsd; what do I have to do
get it to execute "/usr/sbin/hibernate" when hydro is out, and the
battery is running low?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications