My UPS under Debian with NUT
I purchased a Powercom UPS from Elect Power Technologies in Perth, Western Australia in September 2001. This was badged as a PowerTech on the front of the UPS, but the model is identified (by the RS232 interface) as a "Powercom ULT-1000" (see http://www.powercom-tw.com/pi/onlu/frame.htm.
I was attempting to get UPS-Monitoring software under Debian/GNU Linux. I settled on NUT, and after some help from Dan at Fenton, and Russell from the NUT project, I found that this UPS is speaking the Megatec protocol, as documented on the NUT site.
At the time, the driver for this protocol was the fentonups driver, but it had no support for this model. I determined the required lines in fentonups.h that match this model's characteristics, and submitted them to Russell.
I also wrote a small Perl script to open the serial port and get some stat back. You can grab that script if you like, but you should use NUT for production systems. I wrote this just for testing.
If you have a UPS that you suspect is talking this protocol, play with the Perl script, and figure out the values you need to add to fentonups.h.
The following excerpts are taken from the manual that came with the UPS.
U P S
Uninterruptible Power System
Unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung
ON LINE Network Protection
ON LINE Pure Sine Wave Output UPS
700VA/ 1000VA/ 1500VA/ 2KVA/ 3KVA
Revision 1.0. Revised September 15, 2000.
| Pin # | Function | I/O |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Power Fail - normally status, will become closed during active | OUTPUT |
| 4 | Reference GND for pin 2,5 | OUTPUT |
| 5 | Battery Low - normall open status, will become closed during active | OUTPUT |
| 6 | Remote shutdown UPS - keep this pin at high voltage (+5V ~ +12V) 500 ms to shut down UPS. Activates battery mode | INPUT |
| 7 | Reference GND for pin 6 | INPUT |
| Tower model | 700VA | 1000VA | 1500VA | 2000VA | 3000VA | |
| 19" rack mount model | 700VA RM | 1000VA RM | 1500VA RM | 2000VA RM | 3000VA RM | |
| Power Rating | P.F.=0.7 | 700VA/490W | 1KVA/700W | 1.5KVA/1050W | 2KVA/1400W | 3KVA/2100W |
| AC Input | Voltage |
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| Frequency | 50 Hz ir 60Hz +/- 3Hz | |||||
| Phase | Single phase | |||||
| Power Factor | 0.98 | |||||
| Battery | DC Voltage | 24V | 36V | 48V | 72V | 96V |
| Back-up Time Full Load | 5 min | 7 min | 5 min | 9 min | 7 min | |
| Half load | 12 min | 20 min | 17 min | 20 min | 15 min | |
| Type | Seal lead acid battery, free maintenence (sic) | |||||
| Protection | Cut off without draining any current when battery low | |||||
| Recharge time | About 8 hours to 90% after fully dischaged | |||||
| AC output | Frequency | 50Hz/60Hz (Auto detection) | ||||
| Voltage | 100/110/115/120V or 208/220/230/240 V | |||||
| Voltage Regulation | +/- 2% (except 3000 VA/110V +/- 3%, 3000 VA RM/110V +/- 3%) | |||||
| Frequency Stability | +/- 0.5% | |||||
| Power Factor | 0.7 (lagging) | |||||
| Harmonic distortion | < 3% of T.H.D. at linear load | |||||
| Overload detection | 105% for 10 seconds and 130% +/- 10% for 300 ms | |||||
| Effeciency | AC to AC | >85% | ||||
| Transfer | Power failure or recovery | 0ms | ||||
| Overload disappear | Auto transfer to UPS | |||||
| Noice Level | 1m. distance | < 45 dBA | <52 dBA | |||
| LED Indicators | Status | line input (green), inverter output (green), bypass (yellow), fault (red) | ||||
| Battery capacity | 4 green, 1 red LED and red bar LEDs indicated low capacity | |||||
| Load level | 4 green, 1 red LED and red bar LEDs indicated overload capacity | |||||
| Alarm | Battery discharge | The first warning will beep every 4 seconds to indicate battery in use. The second warning will beep every 1 second to signal battery low condition. | ||||
| UPS Fault | Continuous beeping sound | |||||
| Environmental | Temperature | 0 * C - 40 * C | ||||
| Humidity | 0% - 95% (Non condensing) | |||||
| Interface | Support both RS232 & dry contact signal | Provide power managment and diagnostic functions including power status, battery low, shecule UPS ON/OFF, battery load level display and more compatible with Windows 95/98/NT, Novel, Unix, and other popular systems. | ||||
| Physical Size (WxDxH (mm) | Tower model | 145 x 400 x 220 | 192 x 460 x 385 | |||
| 19" rack-mount | 483 x 400 x 130 | 483 x 470 x 130 | ||||
| Net weight (Kg) | Tower model | 8.9 | 11.3 | 13.9 | 28.1 | 33.3 |
| 19" rack-mount | 21.1 | 23.5 | 26.1 | 27 | 31 | |
2000.09.05 Version 1.0 Powercom Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks are propery of their respective owners. Specifications subject to change without notice.