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[Ron Frazier]

Hi Paul,

I can see why you'd say that about the 2nd monitor. I didn't make that 
too clear. That monitor belongs to my wife's computer, a laptop which 
she brings home from work. In the event of a power failure, if we're 
here, we still need to see that screen, and she doesn't know the nuances 
of switching back and forth between internal and external screens.

The battery I have here, with the load I have on it, won't even run 5 
minutes. I'd actually like to be able to tell the system to shut down 
after 1 minute, which amounts to about 70% battery left. I cannot find 
anything in Ubuntu which will allow me that level of control. The power 
settings panel only asks me what I want to do when the battery is 
critically low. It doesn't ask anything about when to do it. I don't 
know how to set it the way it needs to be set.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 01/30/2011 04:39 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 01:33 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>    
>> I bought an APC Back-UPS ES 750.  I have a computer with a 4 core CPU
>> and several hard drives on the UPS.  I also have two monitors on the
>> same circuit.  These systems draw about 250 W at idle and about 400 W
>> when the PC is fully loaded and running hard.  Don't plug laptops,
>> which have their own battery, into the battery part of the UPS, unless
>> their batteries don't work.
>>      
> don't plug anything into the battery backup section of the UPS that you
> DON'T NEED RUNNIGN when the power is out.. maybe ONE monitor but not
> TWO.. I have 2 UPSes here, PC on one with the monitor&  CPU on battery.
> The other ( 350 ) UPS has the modem&  router. printers, laptops, other
> stuff get put on the surge protected side only...
> then tell the UPS to shut down after 5 mintues ( OR LESS). If the power
> goes out&  YOU are THERE, YOU CAN SHUT IT DOWN ANYWAY. If you aren't
> there, it doesn't really matter how long it stays up anyway, does it?
>
>    

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