Questions tagged [ups]

This tag is for questions relating to Uninterruptible Power Supplies designed to provide power when a normal supply fails; inside the scope are: custom units specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi; general units more often associated with PC hardware; and "home-brew" devices. (Usually) based on some sort of Battery technology and almost universally designed to replenish them when the normal supply that it stands in for returns.

For the main RPi units there are at least the following custom items:

  • Pimodules UPiS "Basic" & "Advance" models (26-Pin GPIO) and the later "Pico" model (40-Pin GPIO).
  • CW2.Pi New "+" version due January 2016
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NUT + CyberPower data stale

I've got upsmon (nut-client) and upsd (nut-server) set up and almost fully working on an RPi3. Connected is a CP1500PFCLCD UPS via USB. upsd and upsmon start up perfectly every time. However, given about 2-20 hours of uptime, a "data stale" error…
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Drawing 5V from USP Pico when Raspberry not powered

Is it possible to draw 5V from the UPS PIco module when the Raspberry Pi2 is not powered (i.e. when the UPS is powering the Raspberry)? My setup is as follows: The primary source is 12V. The 12V source powers a 3.5" HDD The Raspberry is powered…
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Why does Pi4 running NUT need a reboot after power outage to connect to APC500 UPS

I have a remote Pi4 running Buster and Network UPS Tools 2.7.4. Most of the time it works fine, but after a long power outage and NUT shutdown, the Pi cannot connect to the UPS. pi@raspmountain:~/webcam $ upsc apc500 Error: Connection failure:…
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