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im trying to just monitor my apc. i dont want it to shutdown on its own because i have larger non - APC Ah batteries and the runtime is much longer than what's displayed (116 minutes displayed)(almost 2 days actual)
can i configure to just monitor using the widget. im willing to shutdown manually if need be so i wont damage pfsense due to improper shutdown. -
@jadrexler
I don't get your intention.
Run a runtime calibration, so the UPS will determine the new expectable on-battery runtime with the actual batteries und configure apcupsd properly. Then it will do all automatically for you.
It won't shutdown pfSense as long as the UPS is not on low battery (remaining minutes or battery percentage, you've stated in the settings). -
@viragomann I've run a calibration multiple times on multiple APC's that I've owned over the years. I t assumes that the batteries are the OEM APC batteries which these are not. these are industrial datacenter batteries which have a runtime of almost 2 days at the current load. from what ive read it has something to do with the EEPROM inside the APC that only assumes OEM battery replacement. whatever it thinks those batteries should run at that load it will base the runtime on that.
which is where my problem starts. im wasting a ridiculous amount of runtime because my apc thinks these smaller batteries are in there even after multiple calibrations.
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@jadrexler
I see. But I had use third party batteries as well with the twice of on-battery runtime, which worked pretty well.Anyway, according to the apcupsd manual you can disable the shutdown by stating "-1" for the BATTERYLEVEL.
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@viragomann ill give it a shot... thanks
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