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stephan288
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Hello all!
Maybe someone handy in electronics and with some knowledge about UPS from APC cou take a look at this older thread and give me an opinion or maybe a solution:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1037818337#post1037818337
The last post in that thread is mine, but it´s kind of an old thread so i am not sure if anyone ever will reply there. That´s why i am starting this new one to get a quick answer. I point out the problem again to let you know what i want to try (i just copy/paste to make it a little faster):
I got an APC Back-UPS RS 900 from a friend that he wanted to throw away. I replaced the 2 batteries and it works well, i guess. I beeps constantly when i take off the power, which means that it´s about to shutdown imediately, but actually it lasts for more than 10 minutes.
As i don´t have the original data cable i was searching in google and i got to this thread.
It will be a little dificult for me to get a RJ45 10p10c plug here since i live in a remote place, but i am handy with soldering equipmente. So my question is:
If i desolder the RJ45 jack from the UPS PCB board and solder the USB cable directly to the correspondant solder points on the UPS board, will it still work? As i understood the 10 pin connector uses actually just 4 pins, so i have to find just those 4 contact points on the board.
Any hint would be greatful apreciated, since i don´t want to do anything stupid and damage this UPS. But i like to install the monitoring software to see the battery condition.
I also have a second of those UPS which got struck by lightning so the board is fried, and removing the RJ45 connector is a piece of cake, i already took it off.
Thanks for your help with this one.
Maybe someone handy in electronics and with some knowledge about UPS from APC cou take a look at this older thread and give me an opinion or maybe a solution:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1037818337#post1037818337
The last post in that thread is mine, but it´s kind of an old thread so i am not sure if anyone ever will reply there. That´s why i am starting this new one to get a quick answer. I point out the problem again to let you know what i want to try (i just copy/paste to make it a little faster):
I got an APC Back-UPS RS 900 from a friend that he wanted to throw away. I replaced the 2 batteries and it works well, i guess. I beeps constantly when i take off the power, which means that it´s about to shutdown imediately, but actually it lasts for more than 10 minutes.
As i don´t have the original data cable i was searching in google and i got to this thread.
It will be a little dificult for me to get a RJ45 10p10c plug here since i live in a remote place, but i am handy with soldering equipmente. So my question is:
If i desolder the RJ45 jack from the UPS PCB board and solder the USB cable directly to the correspondant solder points on the UPS board, will it still work? As i understood the 10 pin connector uses actually just 4 pins, so i have to find just those 4 contact points on the board.
Any hint would be greatful apreciated, since i don´t want to do anything stupid and damage this UPS. But i like to install the monitoring software to see the battery condition.
I also have a second of those UPS which got struck by lightning so the board is fried, and removing the RJ45 connector is a piece of cake, i already took it off.
Thanks for your help with this one.
