Panamax M1500-UPS - Manual (Page 9)

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Home Cinema Power Control Software Instructions
Overview
Panamax’s Home Cinema Power Control software is designed for
use with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT,
Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It works in conjunction with
the UPS to provide full protection of home theater equipment
including digital video recorders, home theater PC’s (HTPC)
and video projectors/lamps.
This program may be used temporarily during the Initial system
setup. An installer can use a notebook computer to set the vari-
ables within the Home Cinema Power Control software. Once the
setup is completed, the notebook computer can be disconnected.
All settings are stored in the UPS.
The software can also be used to manage a Home Theater
Personal Computer (HTPC). Functionality is very similar to a
standard UPS with a PC. The UPS can provide continued power
to the HTPC to maintain recording capabilities if it is being used
as a digital video recorder. It is also capable of saving open doc-
uments and shutting down the HTPC during extended power fail-
ures. This requires a permanent RS232 connection to the HTPC
and having the Home Cinema Power Control software running in
the background on the HTPC. When a power failure occurs,
open files are saved under auto-assigned file names or existing
file names and the files closed. The computer and UPS are
automatically shutdown to conserve battery power. Files with
auto-assigned names will be saved under C:\PCTemp, where C
is the name of your main hard drive. Files that have previously
been saved will be saved in their original location.
There is also a Schedule feature that can automatically save and
close open files and then shutdown the computer and UPS at a
user specified date and time as well as re-start the computer at
a user specified date and time. Use of this feature is optional
and is not required for the power failure shutdown to occur.
2. Power Button:
Closes the program window.
3. Minimize Button:
Minimize the program window.
4. Setup Button:
Opens the Setup Window.
1. Log Button: Opens the Event Log Window.
6. Schedule Button:
Click this button to access the
Schedule Window.
5. Model: Shows the model
of UPS that is being used.
7. Status Bar: Displays messages
about the status of the software.
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