Re: Power Supply Record?

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

I strongly agree.

Creating templates for different power supply types are probably a good 
way to go in most cases.
We even broke up our power supply templates into smaller units, most of 
which are only consisting of a single record. (Templates for "status 
word", "status bit", "command word", "command bit", ...)

The only exception - maybe - being a case where you have a large number 
of very similar, very complex power supplies that need a complex state 
machine to be operated. The only example that I know of: high voltage 
power supplies in large detectors.
Even in such a case I would consider putting only the complex state 
machine into a separate custom (or generic subroutine) record.

Good luck!
Ralph


Luedeke Andreas wrote:
> Susanna Jacobson wrote:
> > [...] we are considering writing a custom Power Supply record.  [...]
> > I would also welcome any advice or cautions you have, based on your 
> > experience in this area. [...]
> Hi Susanna,
> I had a similar idea 8 years ago for some in-house developed power 
> supply at PSI.
> Luckily I got some advice not to do it that way (Thanks Bob!).
>
> If you use one record per power supply, your application will suffer 
> from a lack of expandability, flexibility and usability.
>
> [...]