Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and
"Battery reattached" log entries?
The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router,
external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer,
trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp". The "chirps" stopped
when I tilted the UPS to look at the front panel. As you can see, log
entries stopped at as suddenly as they started.


[root@madeleine ~]# grep apcupsd /var/log/messages | grep Aug
Aug 1 22:56:20 madeleine apcupsd[3342]: Battery disconnected.
Aug 1 23:11:36 madeleine apcupsd[3343]: apcupsd 3.14.3 (20 January
2008) redhat startup succeeded
Aug 1 23:11:36 madeleine apcupsd[3343]: Battery disconnected.
Aug 1 23:11:37 madeleine apcupsd[3343]: NIS server startup succeeded
Aug 1 23:22:06 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: apcupsd 3.14.3 (20 January
2008) redhat startup succeeded
Aug 1 23:22:06 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
Aug 1 23:22:07 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: NIS server startup succeeded
Aug 2 00:18:40 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
Aug 2 00:19:27 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
Aug 2 00:19:37 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
Aug 2 00:22:13 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.

<snip>

Aug 2 04:36:31 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
Aug 2 04:36:40 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
Aug 2 04:36:48 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
Aug 2 04:36:57 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
[root@madeleine ~]# date
Mon Aug 2 08:45:41 CDT 2010
[root@madeleine ~]#

Current UPS status is:

APC : 001,038,0962
DATE : Mon Aug 02 08:56:47 CDT 2010
HOSTNAME : madeleine.localdomain
RELEASE : 3.14.3
VERSION : 3.14.3 (20 January 2008) redhat
UPSNAME : Clyde
CABLE : USB Cable
MODEL : Back-UPS XS 1300 LCD
UPSMODE : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Sun Aug 01 23:22:04 CDT 2010
STATUS : ONLINE
LINEV : 121.0 Volts
LOADPCT : 17.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT : 36.1 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 25 Percent
MINTIMEL : 10 Minutes
MAXTIME : 500 Seconds
SENSE : Medium
LOTRANS : 088.0 Volts
HITRANS : 136.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : Always
BATTV : 26.2 Volts
LASTXFER : No transfers since turnon
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
SELFTEST : NO
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
MANDATE : 2007-07-06
SERIALNO : 8B0727R20810
BATTDATE : 2072-00-37
NOMINV : 120 Volts
NOMBATTV : 24.0 Volts
NOMPOWER : 780 Watts
FIRMWARE : 836.H5 .D USB FW:H5
APCMODEL : Back-UPS XS 1300 LC
END APC : Mon Aug 02 08:57:32 CDT 2010

Hmmmm... Noticing above that the third anniversary of this UPS' birth
(7/6/2007)
approacheth, I wonder if this might be APC's way of trying to scare me
into recycling...



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Robert wrote:
> Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and
> "Battery reattached" log entries?
> The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router,
> external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer,
> trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp". The "chirps" stopped
> when I tilted the UPS to look at the front panel. As you can see, log
> entries stopped at as suddenly as they started.
<snip>
Ah, yes, *that* chirp. Try doing a self-test on the battery. Oh, and I
don't suppose the replace battery light's on? Check the manual - there's
some trick to pushing in one of the buttons to tell it to shut up.

mark

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On 08/02/2010 07:07 AM, Robert wrote:
> Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and
> "Battery reattached" log entries?
> The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router,
> external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer,
> trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp". The "chirps" stopped
> when I tilted the UPS to look at the front panel.
>
[...]

Given the complaint was that the battery was disconnected and that it
stopped when you moved the UPS, I would check the wires connections to
the battery. Pop open the battery compartment and make sure the
connectors are tight.



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Robert <kerplop@...> writes:

>
> Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and
> "Battery reattached" log entries?
> The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router,
> external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer,
> trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp". The "chirps" stopped
> when I tilted the UPS to look at the front panel. As you can see, log
> entries stopped at as suddenly as they started.

> Aug 1 23:22:06 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
> Aug 1 23:22:07 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: NIS server startup succeeded
> Aug 2 00:18:40 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
> Aug 2 00:19:27 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
> Aug 2 00:19:37 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
> Aug 2 00:22:13 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
>
<snip>

Had this happen with my APC UPS late January this year. After contacting APC
support and working through their troubleshooting procedures, I ended up with a
new UPS since mine was still under warranty.

Cheers,
Dave


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