[Nut-upsdev] 3phase progress?

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Niklas,

I looked at your document, but I didn't understand what it is about.
What is a "phase"?  What is "3phase support"? Clearly I must have
missed an earlier discussion.

-- Peter

Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I've been (very) out of the loop for a while, up to the point that I 
> had completely missed that the mailing list has moved. Oh well.
> 
> However, Kjell Claesson poked at me regarding the 3phase stuff, so I 
> found out that I had missed the recent events. In any case, it seems 
> that the situation is unchanged regarding 3phase support.
> 
> As some of you remember I made a suggestion for a 3phase naming-space:
> http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/staff/nikke/nut/3phase.txt
> 
> I got almost no feedback on this, which means that it either sucks or 
> rocks completely.
> 
> In either case, we need to move forward on this, so:
> 
> My general idea is to not change the current (as of the proposals 
> writing) namespace, so existing applications and drivers continue to 
> work.
> 
> The proposal consists of adding useful measurements, and a "CONTEXT" 
> to specify what's measured in 3phase mode. "CONTEXT" doesn't exist in 
> 1phase mode. This makes a clean naming space which shouldn't be too 
> hard to understand, implement and maintain.
> 
> To add to a recent debate on whatever UPS it was that return only real 
> power (W): This proposal adds real power measurements to the 
> namespace.
> 
> Any reactions this time? Please?
> 
> /Nikke