APC UPS control system manual Select function number Doing prepdevice

4)Monitor Battery Calibration progress

5)Program EEPROM

6)Enter TTY mode communicating with UPS

7)Quit

Select function number:

You might want to run option 1) just to ensure that apctest is properly talking to your UPS. It will produce quite about 70 lines of output.

To program the EEPROM, select option 5), and you will get the EEPROM menu as follows:

This is the EEPROM programming section of apctest.

Please select the function you want to perform.

1)Print EEPROM values

2)Change Battery date

3)Change UPS name

4)Change sensitivity

5)Change alarm delay

6)Change low battery warning delay

7)Change wakeup delay

8)Change shutdown delay

9)Change low transfer voltage

10)Change high transfer voltage

11)Change battery return threshold percent

12)Change output voltage when on batteries

13)Change the self test interval

14)Set EEPROM with conf file values

15)Quit

Select function number:

If you wish to use the old pre-3.10.x method of EEPROM programming with values specified in the apcupsd.conf file, select option 14). However, we recommend that you start with item 1) to see what EEPROM values apctest finds. This command can take a few minutes to run, so be patient. The values printed should be the same as what you got using apcaccess, but in addition, the EEPROM battery date and UPS Name should be displayed. For example:

Select function number: 1

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