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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: APC SmartUPS series serial-port protocol anyone?
Message-ID: <1994Oct31.024430.15374@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 02:44:30 GMT
References: <TAMSKY.94Oct29191638@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu> <CMETZ.94Oct30051603@itchy.inner.net> <391eg6$k9d@lace.colorado.edu>
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In article <391eg6$k9d@lace.colorado.edu>, vilhuber@yomama.com (Jan Vilhuber) says:
+---------------
| Craig Metz (cmetz@inner.net) wrote:
| : In article <TAMSKY.94Oct29191638@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu> tamsky@avarice.ugcs.caltech.edu (Marc Tamsky) writes:
| 
| : >   I have a SmartUPS 600 from American Power Conversions (APC),  it has
| : >   a serial port which provides for intelligent remote management.
| : >   Does anyone have the protocol spec for how to talk to it?
| 
| : 	Yes, but APC isn't going to give it to you without an NDA.
| 
| Wrong.
+------------->8

They'll *all* give you the trivial spec for "power lost" signals.  It's the
full spec that you can't pry out of anyone except Best and Upsonic, by all
reports; I tried to get Deltec's smart mode specs but failed.

++Brandon
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