[ale] UPS with automatic startup after recharge

[James P. Kinney III]

Recently, MicroCenter has had a good supply of Belkin UPS's. They
support Linux with software included! They talk through a serial port.
You can configure them to gracefully shutdown the box before the battery
dies and then (I think) power itself off for a while until the battery
is charged back up a bit by setting a minimum battery power setting.
Some systems support a BIOS setting that will restart the machine on
power restore after power fail. That may require the shutdown to only go
to single user mode so the system _will_ actually die from power loss so
the BIOS function can happen.

Otherwise, break out a solder iron and the "Horowitz and Hill 'The Art
of Electronics'" (which any self-respecting geek should own just because
they can:)

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:52, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an inexpensive UPS that can start up a server once
> power is restored AND it had some time to recharge.
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