Hi,

Thanks for the replies. I've read all of them and they were all helpful.

Since posting the last time, I picked up a [APC Back-UPS ES UPS, 350VA,
200watts] and also threw a USB controller into the witch brew.

Using the RH9 RPM for apcupsd, it was a straight-forward drop in and is
working....

Actually, I was pleasantly surprised how simple it was to get up and
running. I'll probably tweak out some of the timing variables to my own
preferences, but for all purposes it works well "right out of the box"
(apcusbd).

I'm happy with it. I'll check out NUT and the other sources listed in this
thread though. Left for another day is a few things that I'd like to tweak
on the UPS EPROM firmware itself such as turning the annoying alarm beeps
off, changing the "grace period" from time UPS gets a "power off" command to
actually turning off, etc. The apctest program doesn't seem to recognize any
of these settings even though does pick up battery date, manuf date, etc.
No big deal. The HDD has a real small W98 partition and I think I saw a
Windoze program to get at all this stuff...

UPS newbie here and just happy it was so painless... Hard to believe gone
so many years without any of these animals. I'll definetly be getting some
big ones for my main computers soon. :-)

Thanks!