[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - power_supply=intermittent

[Jan van Bekkum]

   - The community supply is not reliable and fails at random moments *during
   the day...*


On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 7:09:33 AM Jan van Bekkum <jan.vanbekkum at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The proposal comes from experience while traveling through Africa.
> Electricity failing three times per year probably isn't very valuable
> information to campers. We ran into three situations I would like to cover:
>
>    - The community supply is not reliable and fails at random moments
>    - The camping operates a generator that runs between 19:00 and 23:00
>    - The camping operates a system with solar cells and batteries. They
>    allow you to use electricity (at least for larger devices like fridges)
>    from an hour after sunrise to sunset. I think it is not that important to
>    know that electricity comes from solar power, but it is important its
>    availability limits as set by the camping operator, although it may mean
>    that supply is worse in the rainy season
>
> I agree that a structure that maintains power_supply=nema_5_15 is
> preferable.
>
> Trying to invent as few new tags as possible the updated proposal would
> become:
>
>    - power_supply=nema_5_15
>    - power_supply:schedule= [...] - has syntax as defined for
>    opening_hours
>
> Or
>
>    - power_supply=nema_5_15
>    - power_supply:schedule= intermittent
>
> Or do you feel that power_supply:intermittent=yes is better than
> power_supply:schedule= intermittent?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan van Bekkum
>
>
> On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 4:32:54 AM David Bannon <dbannon at internode.on.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 20:47 +0100, Jan van Bekkum wrote:
>> > Please comment the proposal to add the value intermittent to the key
>> > power_supply.
>> >
>> Jan, good move, just wondering what you mean by 'intermittent' ?  Two
>> cases may need to be enlarged on -
>>
>> 1. Where I live, power goes off, typically due to weather, three or four
>> times a year. Thats "occasional failure" rather than "intermittent" ?
>>
>> 2. At a place I like to camp at in Central Australia, power is provided
>> during particular times of the day, from memory, 7:00am-9:00pm and
>> 5:30pm-8:30pm. That also is probably not intermittent ?
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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