m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote, On 01/29/2010 04:53 PM: > We got replacement battery "kits" for some of our APC UPS' (Smart-UPS, > rackmount). I put them into one tray (it's for an RBC 43, which takes 8, > and weighs a ton), and put it in, and let it charge. Idiot "change > battery" led stays on. So I hit the test button, it discharges very > rapidly (a good number of servers on this), and the led stays on. > > For some reason, apcupsd's USB test fails, with an HIDDEV i/o error. So I > got rid of the weird APC usb cable, and put in one of their serial cables, > and run the "smart" test (the USB does more), and get results showing > everything's fine. > > But the idiot light's still on. > > So, looking at all the values that the "apcsmart" choice can give me, the > first thing is UPS status. I've been googling for a while, and can't find > a single reference to it. Anyone have a link to somewhere that will give > me the status codes (and their meaning)? > no idea on the status codes... but I interpret from the above and what the apcupsd folks have posted to seem to indicate that you may be down to either soft or manual runtime calibration: http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#battery-replacement http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#battery-installation http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#soft-runtime-calibration http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html#manual-runtime-calibration -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter