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Subject: Re: Power Supply Record?
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
To: Luedeke Andreas <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:49:48 +0100
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.

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Re: Power Supply Record? Geoff Savage
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Power Supply Record? Susanna Jacobson
Re: Power Supply Record? Luedeke Andreas

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