Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

Alimentation à découpage et réenclenchement

English translation:

SMPS with automatic reset

Added to glossary by Mark Nathan
Feb 2, 2006 11:03
18 yrs ago
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French term

Alimentation à découpage et réenclenchement

French to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general) drinks vending machines
From a diagram of a vending machine
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 SMPS

Discussion

Mark Nathan (asker) Feb 2, 2006:
The rest of the captions with the diagram are comparatively low tech, so I am wondering if they just mean cut out supply and automatic restarting (of the drinks vending machine)
Mark Nathan (asker) Feb 2, 2006:
Sorry, a word got lost: r�enclenchement automatique

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): Alimentation � d�coupage et r�enclenchement
Selected

SMPS

At least half the answer.

Does it read as "alimentation à déclenchement", or does it parse differently?

Les alimentations à découpage que nos amis anglo-saxons appellent des SMPS pour Switch Mode Power Supply offrent un certain nombre d'avantages (peut-être pas forcément pour vous d'ailleurs) lorsqu'elles sont implantés dans des systèmes de transmission
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f6crp/elec/index.htm

read all about SMPSs at:
http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/~venkat/pe_html/pe07_nc8.htm


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Note added at 1 hr (2006-02-02 12:58:39 GMT)
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SMPS with automatic reset?
Peer comment(s):

agree Tony M : Surely SMPS; as for the rest, it might be 're-triggerable' (referring to the S/M itself, or 'resettable', if it means it can recover from a failure
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