1.531 PowerCalc

The logical device PowerCalc, calculates the overall output power of two HPAs and take into account the position of a 2+1 redundancy switch and if a power combiner (VPC) is active or not.

Device window pages

The following table shows which device window pages are available with this individual device type.

Configuration parameters

At the maintenance contains settings to configure this logical device.

parameter description
hpa1Id Parameter ID of first HPA output power in W
hpa2Id Parameter ID of second HPA output power in W
hpaRId Parameter ID of redundant HPA output power in W
hpa1Id Parameter ID of redundancy switch position
hpa1Id Parameter ID of variable power combiner position

The result is provided via pOut (in Watt) and p (in dBW) parameter.

Variables defined by this device driver

name type flags range
info.driver TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
lowLevel.cmd TEXT StringRange
lowLevel.reply TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
faults.99 ALARM R/O AlarmFlagRange R/O (Communication)
faults.commstat TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.type TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.port TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
info.frame TEXT R/O StringRange R/O
config.hpa1Id TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.hpa2Id TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.hpaRId TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.red TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
config.vpc TEXT SAVE SETUP StringRange
pHpa1 INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
pHpa2 INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
pHpaR INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
p1 INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
p2 INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
pOut INTEGER IntegerRange (0 .. 0)
p FLOAT DoubleRange (0.00 .. 0.00)
red CHOICE EnumRange (NONE 1 2)
vpc CHOICE EnumRange (A B A+B LOAD)