[wellylug] Dynamix UPS

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 15:01 +1300, David Antliff wrote:
> On 12/01/2008, Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper at unleash.co.nz> wrote:
> > I've power-off tested it about 10 times, and it has worked perfectly
> > each time. Haven't tested output power quality, but it runs my server,
> > Linksys WRT300N, Linksys PAP2T, cordless telephone and Dynalink ADSL
> > modem just fine.
> 
> I'd be interested to know what happens if you try runnning a 40 or 60W
> incandescent light bulb off your UPS when the battery is online. Does
> it flicker really badly? I understand if you'd rather not do this.

I can go one better. I'll hook it up to a scope early this week and let
you know what the output waveform looks like.

> > I couldn't get it to work with NUT, but the software on the included CD
> > is very simple and works well, so I've just installed that under /opt
> > with a custom init script (unsurprisingly, they didn't include
> > Gentoo-compatible init scripts).
> 
> NUT support for Dynamix UPSs was added last month in 2.2.1. I didn't
> realise there was Linux software on the included CD. I will have to
> try that.

What's the NUT driver called? I installed 2.2.1 but there's no driver
called dynamix, so I'm guessing it's supported by one of the others?

Cheers,
-j