A question for APC UPS/Power Chute owners

barfly · Post by **barfly** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:56 am

I'm using Power Chute Personal Edition with my APC back up UPS. The UPS came with a cable that goes into my PCs USB port and it feeds all the info into Power Chute, stuff like battery run time, input voltage and so on. After i installed this software it automatically was added to startup, is this something i need to have in startup? I have it programmed to automatically shutdown my pc when i have 5 min of battery run time left, if i take it out of startup will it still shutdown my system? I'm just trying to clear my startup menu of all the unneccesary stuff and thinking of taking this outv as well.

Darkstar · Post by **Darkstar** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:01 am

Mine works fine and its not in startup, why not take it out, reboot and then unplug the UPS plug to simulate a power failure to see what happens?

Tech_Greek · Post by **Tech_Greek** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:04 pm

The unit will run fine without the USB cable plugged in, it's just there for statistics...

You will loose the 5 minutes before feature though because it's software dependant.

barfly · Post by **barfly** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:24 pm

Well, i like having the stats from the USB cable fed into Power Chute, but what i dont understand from your post is whether i will loose the 5 min shutdown thing if i unplug the USB cable or if i remove Power Chute from startup?

Tech_Greek · Post by **Tech_Greek** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:11 pm

barfly wrote:Well, i like having the stats from the USB cable fed into Power Chute, but what i dont understand from your post is whether i will loose the 5 min shutdown thing if i unplug the USB cable or if i remove Power Chute from startup?

You will loose it if you remove it from start up, it's all software based?

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:28 pm

If you go in to control panel, click on power options, power schemes, set the drop down menus to shut down in the desired time under running on batteries.

That's how I have my UPS set up via the USB with no software controlling it.

Tech_Greek · Post by **Tech_Greek** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:41 pm

Sparky wrote:If you go in to control panel, click on power options, power schemes, set the drop down menus to shut down in the desired time under running on batteries.

That's how I have my UPS set up via the USB with no software controlling it.

You could do that, but I was under the assumption the old method did not support USB only serial connections? That's the way it looked the last time I was on XP...

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:59 pm

I'm running XP Home w/SP2 and it seems to work ok.