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| awemawson:
Thanks Spud for moving the topic - I must have been having hissy putting it where I did! OK it seems at the moment the UPS throws a wobbly almost exactly 2 1/2 minutes after it gets power back. Leave it to get past it's seizure before rebooting the pc and everything is fine. Must be a setting somewhere as it's too repeatable to be a fault in the normal sense of the word. |
| spuddevans:
--- Quote from: awemawson on August 15, 2014, 05:35:42 PM ---Thanks Spud for moving the topic - I must have been having hissy putting it where I did! --- End quote --- No problem :thumbup: --- Quote ---OK it seems at the moment the UPS throws a wobbly almost exactly 2 1/2 minutes after it gets power back. Leave it to get past it's seizure before rebooting the pc and everything is fine. Must be a setting somewhere as it's too repeatable to be a fault in the normal sense of the word. --- End quote --- It's funny you say that, but when I first switch on my CNC PC, it will interrupt and reset the CNC drivers. I think it interrupts the "Heartbeat" signal sent out the parallel port, but it does it without putting Mach3 into "reset" mode, so I think it is something in the hardware level. The reason for mentioning it is that it occurs about the same timing as you describe (although I have never timed it) I've just learned to put the PC on as soon as I get into the workshop, then by the time I want to use the Mill it will be past the point where this occurs. Perhaps there may be a common cause to both yours and my problems, perhaps some "self test" that either the PC hardware or the operating system makes shortly after booting that messes with your UPS (and my CNC driver) Tim |
| Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew, Thank you for your account of that session of computer diagnosis and repair/reconfiguration, a useful contribution to the 'Group' knowledge! :thumbup: :thumbup: All duly noted. We have a saying in this household: 'computers are fun, FUN, FUN'! Usually voiced while simulating tearing of hair! :bang: :bang: :bang: If you think the power outages (aka CUTS) are bad now, just wait until 'they' get to phase two of smart meter introduction! |
| awemawson:
So a bit more progress - I videoed the UPS lights as it went through its wobbly stage for the benefit of the vendor, who is equally puzzled. I have installed a second identical UPS on my workshop PC with as far as I can tell an identical configuration, as it throws the same hissy fit :scratch: This tells me it's either a setup / configuration issue or a feature. It's not a show stopper, as all I have to do is not re-start the PC for several minutes after a power outage, and usually this would be the case anyway Here is an EXTREMELY boring video: |
| pete3000:
looks like its a config. the manual is here http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/ASTE-6Z8LC7/ASTE-6Z8LC7_R0_EN.pdf the 2nd paragraph under shutdown mode.... the display scroll if the ups is ordered to shutdown by the PC to preserve UPS batt capacity. We normally run our UPS's the other way round, i.e shutdown once ups has only 10-20% batt remaining. Which keeps systems up as long as poss for short outages. this is done from powerchute software. Of course the usual caveat is that you can't then have output from UPS to turn the systems back on until you have 10-20% charge back in the batteries. :bang: We have our computer Bios set to after power failure = power on. (meaning as soon as we have 20% the systems come back up.) HTH Pete |
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