Grebuloner
2[H]4U
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So, this has been a pretty tough season for me in terms of power utility reliability. Every time there's some kind of storm (or not), we have a rough power outage, the kind that starts with 10 seconds of brownout before quick on/off cycles and then it finally goes dark. Well, it's killing my computers and equipment, and while I have a UPS on my main system, I'm planning on buying some more for the not-as-important other systems in the house.
Here's the real question: In one room, I have my home fileserver and a power sucking DC system. The server uses maybe 50 watts when it isn't booting. I would like to use a single UPS for both systems and have it report its status to both so that they can automatically shut down when the power goes out.
The popular, reliable, and often on sale CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD I'm using in my office has USB and serial connections. Is it possible to connect one to each computer and both will receive the battery state info?
Here's the real question: In one room, I have my home fileserver and a power sucking DC system. The server uses maybe 50 watts when it isn't booting. I would like to use a single UPS for both systems and have it report its status to both so that they can automatically shut down when the power goes out.
The popular, reliable, and often on sale CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD I'm using in my office has USB and serial connections. Is it possible to connect one to each computer and both will receive the battery state info?