How best to setup my SMT1500IC

BillP · ‎2021-06-30

The mains supply where I am is subject to cuts and I suspect undervoltage and I have had equipment break and often equipment left in strange states after some fluctuation.

I've just bought an SMT1500IC for my home office having owned an Back-UPS RS 1500VA previously.

With the RS 1500 it seemed very plug and play I only had one desktop windows PC device I wanted managed shutdown of (connected the USB lead to, ran powerchute on) some critical things I plugged into to the main sockets, and some less critical things I plugged in to the "surge protection " sockets.

The SMT1500IC seems like a whole different kettle of fish, doesn't have surge protection sockets. It seems to be highly configurable and I'm not sure I know how to best set it up.

My equipment has changed also in that I only run linux devices now and I have two I wish to gracefully shutdown only one of which is always on.

Here is what I have:

Desktop PC, Linux. Occasionally powered up. Needs to gracefully shutdown on battery when charge is low.
QNAP TS-453A NAS. Linux. Always on. Needs to gracefully shutdown on battery when charge is low.
Broadband router and two Ethernet switches.
Gigaset telephone base station (does not work without power). Can just die when battery goes. Sensitive to power blips.
Canon MX925 printer (not needed on battery - always complains if powered off without shutting down)
Monitor speakers (not needed on battery - want to protect from blips.

If I really need it I could find a windows laptop to run powerchute to configure things.

I have installed apcupsd in the linux desktop.

Can anyone please advise on what I should do?

BillP · ‎2021-06-30

The SMT1500iC outlets are all protected by battery in the event of a power outage and are all surge protected. The SMT also has switch-able outlet groups. There is a main outlet group and a switched outlet group. If you power off the main outlet group all outlets are powered off. If you power off group1 only those outlet are powered off. So, you can turn off outlet group1 and the others will stay powered.

As for the 2 Linux systems you can install APCUPSD on each and configure 1 as the host and the other as a client. The host will inform the client when the UPS is on battery and the client will react based on the configuration you have created. See the apcupsd users guide http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/manual.html#configuration-types for assistance.

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BillP · ‎2021-06-30

The SMT1500iC outlets are all protected by battery in the event of a power outage and are all surge protected. The SMT also has switch-able outlet groups. There is a main outlet group and a switched outlet group. If you power off the main outlet group all outlets are powered off. If you power off group1 only those outlet are powered off. So, you can turn off outlet group1 and the others will stay powered.

As for the 2 Linux systems you can install APCUPSD on each and configure 1 as the host and the other as a client. The host will inform the client when the UPS is on battery and the client will react based on the configuration you have created. See the apcupsd users guide http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/manual.html#configuration-types for assistance.