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"Gurd, Pamela A." <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:55:02 -0500

Actually, 208t303 is a well-defined convention hereabouts for "208 to
303" (used in shared power supplies, I believe.)  Because "-" is not
allowed in our names.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay-Uwe Kasemir [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: tech talk
> Subject: Re: Naming conventions for devices and Epics records
> 
> Hello:
> 
> It's Friday, so I can't help but add a few more comments.
> When you compare the link that Dave sent,
> > https://ics-web1.sns.ornl.gov/STANDARDS/Naming%20Conventions%
> > 20Instructional%20Document.pdf
> to the BESSY docs, you'll see things like underscores that are
allowed,
> but not required in some places.
> Earlier SNS naming documents contained phrases like "use upper/lower
> case
> and underscores however you like to improve readability".
> Good examples for a non-standard, resulting in long names, maybe
> readable,
> but definitely hard to parse. Worst are probably our instance numbers:
> "105" = 105th instance, or 5th instance on 1st system
> "05b" = 2nd instance on 5th system
> "_65kV" = the system that handles 65*10^3 Volts
>            - I think, because 65kV suggests a voltage.
>              For a name parser, it could also be the 65th instance
>              on the 'kV' system.
> "_FE65kV" = the system that handles 65*10^3 Volts on the front-end?
> "208t303" = no idea

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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