Control Panel Functions

The UPS has a three-button graphical LCD with dual color backlight. Standard backlight is used to light up the display with white text and a blue background. When the UPS has a critical alarm, the backlight changes the text to dark amber and the background to amber. See Figure 19.

Figure 19. Dell Tower UPS Control Panel

There are three buttons on the control panel:

S

Scroll up or back

S

Select

S

Scroll down or forward

Table 3 describes the functions of the LCD control buttons.

Table 3. Control Button Functions

Control Button Sequence

Function

 

 

Press for less than one second

Scroll back or up to the previous menu.

 

 

Press for longer than one

Return/exit back one menu layer without initiating a command

second

or changing a setting.

 

 

Press for less than one second

Select the menu or option to be changed.

 

 

Press for longer than one

Save the setting being edited.

second

 

 

 

Press for less than one second

Scroll forward or down to the next menu option.

 

 

Press both buttons for three

Temporarily disable the battery startup feature until the next

seconds

power cycle. The buzzer emits a one second beep to indicate

 

that Battery Start has been disabled.

Press all three buttons for five seconds

Shortcut for defaulting the language back to English. The buzzer emits a one second beep to indicate that the setting has changed to English.

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Dell 1920W/1500W, 1000W manual Control Panel Functions, Control Button Functions Control Button Sequence

1000W, 1920W/1500W, 500W specifications

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