Awesome. Not sure if my three reset attempts idea makes sense. I'm just
worried about something like a SS blowing and the PDU sitting there
resetting the port(s) endlessly. I imagine that's probably not good for
the electronic breaker thingamajig.
What I have observed with the WB SS's is a nearby lightning strike will
set them off and the fuse blows. Replace the fuse and everything is
usually good to go again. If feel better that the SS did something and
probably saved the radio and/or router/switch port from taking a surge.
OTOH, I have seen them actually blow completely (saving the gear most of
the time) and obviously the fuse pops. Get to the site and replace the
fuse only to have it pop again. That's when I know something else is
wrong. :(
On 5/10/2015 5:01 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
All of the modules which have overcurrent trip are going to get this
functionality.
Timing:
The base unit firmware is getting a (hopefully) final release based on
the current code. This code is ready and just needs to be packaged
for release. This final release fixes a issue where the base unit
Ethernet locks up, causing a software deadlock followed by a watchdog
reboot. The trigger is bad packets being received, usually as a
result of a duplex mismatch.
Once that is done, there will be a early adopter chain released for
both the base unit and expansion modules. There are added capabilities
being added to the system which makes the auto reset functionality
much easier to implement. For example, the expansion modules will be
keeping track of the length of time since the last change, which
equates to the time since the last trip. This information will be
available via the web and via snmp. The code we have written for this
also includes the auto reset functionality. This actually isn't that
far out as most of it is done, we just ended up needing to track down
this other bug once we were able to reproduce it in house, and then
backport it to the current release without all the new experimental
stuff in it.
On May 10, 2015 12:53 PM, "George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting)"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Question for Forrest. I know it was talked about in the past to
have an auto-reset when a port goes into over-current trip for the
SyncInjectors. What about the PDU module?
I'm working on some stuff that's going to be far away, so the PDU
in place of fuse blocks makes total sense, but it would be even
more awesome if any tripped outputs could reset themselves after
5-10 seconds. Not sure if this is possible, but maybe like three
reset attempts and it gives up would be pretty cool too.
