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Intro seems fine

Extending it beyond two paragraphs seems like overkill to me. It contains what most people would want to know in brief summary. Actually one of the better intros really.--Weasel tango (talk) 20:24, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

looking for CPSS or CSS info

hi

i'm looking in this article, or on other here in wikipedia, info about what i know as "Central Power Supply System" CPSS or "Central Supply Systems" CSS, see www.riello-ups.com/questions/31-what-s-the-difference-between-a-central-power-supply-system-and-a-ups and www.riello-ups.co.uk/products/6-bespoke-solutions/75-css-central-supply-systems

in italian language, this is usually called "soccorritore" (resquer)

maybe CPSS/CSS is not his best know name on english, i don't know.

can someone please point me to a related section/article (if exist), so that i can link it to the new stub-article on the italian wiki about this (:it:Central Power Supply System)?

thank you

--5.170.45.128 (talk) 19:35, 23 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure, I would assume it would be under backup power supply, but that redirects to UPS... I think Continual_power_system or Emergency_power_system would cover it but they are not the same if I look at the Riello links you provided. Rmvandijk (talk) 09:41, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reply; it is strange that an emergency device regulated by a European standard (EN 50171) has so little literature on the internet; maybe there will be something more in other European languages (French, German ...) than in English. Anyway, here below some links to English content:

docplayer.it/26638955-Eps-kva-gruppi-statici-di-soccorso-cpss-e-lpss-en-emergency-systems-cpss-and-lpss-en-50171.html

elektronforras.hu/en/termekek/power-cps

constantpowerservices.com/areas/6-emergency-ups-centralised-power-supplies

(...it would be nice if someone makes an article about this!)

--5.170.44.177 (talk) 08:29, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What happened to delta conversion?

I remember reading documents a decade or so ago about APCs delta conversion UPSs, they promised the output quality benefits of online UPSs without the efficiency drawbacks, but they seem to have disappeared both from this page on wikipedia and from the UPS market.

Does anyone know what happened? were their major drawbacks? were the benefits simply smaller than APC anticiated? did the technology just get lost in politics after the merger? Plugwash (talk) 00:22, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Software

The article currently has a chapter on Communication between the UPS and computer(s), where it mentions a bit of both media and a subsystem in the OS, signal splitters, etc.

May this be extended to reference some Wikipedia articles about actual software ("subsystem in the OS"), whether FOSS or proprietary? Would it not be discarded as "shameless plugs" promoting some items at expense of others nobody remembered to mention?

I personally am biased toward mentioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_UPS_Tools as its maintainer, but it would be prudent and democratic to list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apcupsd and proprietary items (e.g. APC PowerChute, Eaton IPM/IPP/IPSS projects, as well as UPSilon2000, ViewPower, WinPower, UPSmart, PowerManagerII, Power Manager Lite -- based on labels I see in NUT issue tracker). It is probably worth mentioning the support built into some OSes, although it is often geared towards laptop-style batteries and a few UPS protocols like HID Battery (in Windows). In that line, the fact of there being dozens of protocols and dialects is also worth mentioning. Jimklimov (talk) 21:15, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that I understand the question. Other Wikipedia articles can be linked from this one as appropriate, but your use of the word "reference" makes me concerned that you want to add information and cite other articles as references, which isn't permissible per WP:CIRCULAR; what you can do instead, in such cases, is copy any appropriate references to this article as long as they support the content that you wish to add. DonIago (talk) 12:54, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]