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Liander URLs for outages (Dutch: storingen)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/21

I wrote Liander related posts before:

Last year, a friend got an outage and I remembered there was a way to show details. When the outage is unresolved, the web-site does not show you how to pinpoint a certain outage by ID, but when it is, it does. That sounds complicated, so here are some example URLs:

If you have an outage ID and you append it to https://www.liander.nl/storingen/overzicht/details-van-deze-storing?storingsnummer= then either of these happen:

  • the page with the resolved outage appears
  • the URL changes into https://storingen-inzicht.web.liander.nl/overzicht?referentienummer= plus the outage ID and opens with the information on the unresolved outage

Note that these links do not save well in the Wayback machine (because – unlike Archive.is- it saves pages before rendering):

Via: [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Seems you got power again: … (it also shows how to get from an outage at … to the details page: take the Referentienummer value, than paste it in the details URL which might change into … when unsolved).… “

–jeroen

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Liander: aansluiting inzien en SMS waarschuwingen bij storingen

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/17

Logon met postcode, huisnummer+toevoeging, en meternummer:

Meldt aan met postcode, huisnummer+toevoeging, en GSM nummer:

Overige:

–jeroen

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From the past: figuring out the damage last nights lightning strike at 1060NP caused yesterday evening

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/23

[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Trying to figure out the damage last nights lightning strike at 1060NP caused yesterday evening….”

and [WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “Trying to figure out the damage last nights lightning strike at 1060NP caused yesterday evening. @LianderNL was very quick to respond and fi […]”

Thread by @jpluimers: “Trying to figure out the damage last nights lightning strike at 1060NP caused yesterday evening. @LianderNL was very qnd and fix L3 from our 3-phase connection: the main fuse before the meter tripped. Damage so far: 1 @amazonDE […]”

This was the first preventive measure fiber cable for galvanic isolation between the parts that can be powered by UPS and the parts that cannot be:

[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “New fiber provides galvanic isolation between the parts that are behind the master UPS and the ones I cannot get behind it. Should help contain damage during a future lightning strike.…”

–jeroen

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Some notes on apcupsd, a SUA3000XLI and a SUA48XLBP battery pack

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/22

I’ve had a SUA3000XLI for years using the USB cable and default Windows support as PowerChute Personal Edition would fail to recognise it and abort installation (so I could not use APC drivers as described on youtube).

A while ago, Liander – the energy distribution company – wanted to replace both the gas and electricity meters to become “smart” during day time. The server configuration load was heavy enough for Windows to indicate the UPS would last about 30 minutes. At night that’s not much of a problem but during 1 hour replacement day-time it would be a problem.

So I bought a SUA48XLBP battery pack (and a SUA039 cable as the cable wasn’t long enough to keep an inch or so air space between UPS and battery pack) so the battery would last about 3 times as long.

Windows would still show it would last about 30 minutes. Strange. So I started looking around and it appeared the SUA3000XLI needed calibration which requires PowerChute. Since PowerChute won’t work, I was almost back at square 1. Almost, as I know knew it required calibration.

In the past I had come across apcupcd but that was a long time ago when it supported a limited set of operating systems and a limited set of features so I never installed it.

But when searching how to calibrate the without using PowerChute, it quickly appeared that the apctest part of apcupsd can do just that: soft calibrate the UPS/battery combo. There are some steps and prerequisites (the most important ones are to turn off the apcupsd and provide enough load and 100% battery charge at start).

Spoiler: the combined UPS/battery-pack now lasts for almost 2 hours which is long enough.

Installing apcupsd

I’m describing this from a Windows perspective and it’s dead easy:

  1. download the latest release
  2. run the installer
  3. allow the driver to be installed
    1. indicate it’s OK to install an unsigned driver
    2. now Windows won’t recognise the UPS any more, but in a few steps the apcupsd and helper program will
  4. update the configuration file (no changes needed when it’s a USB connected one)
  5. wait for the service to start
  6. wait for the apctray helper program to start
  7. look in the “system tray” for apctray helper program icon 
  8. optionally configure your system to auto-start apctray after logon

The USB connection to the UPS delivers slightly less options than using a serial cable

Using a serial cable instead of a USB one

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