Summary PowerWalker VFI 3000 CG PF1

[derritter88]

Summary PowerWalker VFI 3000 CG PF1

[derritter88]

Command test.battery.stop is not working

[derritter88]

Also battery value % is different from NUT vs LCD screen on UPS.

10 % according to LCD vs 73 % according to NUT.

[derritter88]

NUT on version 2.7.4 printed the proper values with nutdrv_qx

[derritter88]

protocol=voltronic solved the problem

edited the description

[jimklimov]

@derritter88 : to clarify, did the change to voltronic protocol fix the issues in later posts (battery percentage, runtime, commands)?

Is the data dump in top post "partially bad" from the original attempt, or the "good" one after the edit? If not, can you post the "good" data also (not overwriting the earlier post, so both examples can go to the DDL eventually), please?

[derritter88]

@jimklimov Hi Jim, I edited my initial post to voltronic to get the proper values from the UPS.
The data dump is from a "bad" driver (megatronic) but to be honest: I had to replace the PowerWalker by an Eaton as the UPS kept "locking in" and did not continue to communicate via the driver. Due to that I had to shutdown my servers to power off the UPS and turn it back on to "enable" the USB connection.

From a Linux perspective the USB was always there but the data got stale.

[derritter88]

It would be interesting if different users of PowerWalker/BlueWalker devices experience the same problems which I had.

[derritter88]

But as this UPS is now spare I would be happy to test anything for you to see if it would solve me previous mentioned troubles

[derritter88]

I removed the vendor stuff to see if it disconnects again after some days.
Current config would be:

[powerwalker]
        driver = "nutdrv_qx"
        port = "auto"
        protocol = voltronic
        #subdriver = cypress
        novendor
        product = "OLHV3K0"
        desc = "PowerWalker VFI 3000 CG PF1"
        pollinterval = 15
        serial = "xxxxxx"
        runtimecal = 180,100,600,50

[derritter88]

What is strange compared to an Eaton UPS is that PowerWalker devices are being tricky when it comes to read the UPS data.
Driver takes long to load, data get stale very often and sometime the readings are weird like 234234 % battery