On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:30:34PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:26:53PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
I'm contemplating buying a couple of UPS units, at the very cheap end, so no comms to the computer which could be used to initiate a programmed shutdown if the mains goes off.
I'm wondering exactly how cheap you are looking at? given that you can get refurb UPS units (with new batteries) off ebay (or similar) so cheaply now which have serial or usb ports i'd think by the time you'd done the required fiddling just buying a recon unit with a serial port would be much cheaper/easier?
Or indeed new:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/77131
(admittedly I bought mine when it was about £25 inc P&P)
Works with nut and will tell you voltage and so forth quite happily.
J.