Power
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Introduction
Documenting your electric power objects in i-doit gives you the possibility to get a detailed view of the interconnection of all your power devices, from the socket in the wall through the UPS to the power supply in your server.
Concept
I-doit differentiates between four different types of power objects. In the main tree browser view you can just see the object type "Power object", but within the object you have the possibility to change the type of power object in the category "Power-Object".
The different types are "Power supplier", "UPS", "Power distributor" and "Fuse box". There is a fifth kind of power object, a "Power consumer". The "Power consumer" soes not show up as a single power object, it is a category within a standard object, e.g. a server.
Each of theses objects has sockets and plugs, except the "Power supplier" and the "Power consumer", the supplier just has a socket and the consumer just has a plug.
When you create new sockets and plugs in your power objects, you can connect them in i-doit to each other to completely document the power chains that exist within your company.
Usage
Initially before documenting your electric power infrastructure you should decide how detailed the documentation should be. Using our given power objects you can enter each power circuit with its fuses and power distributions, but many users probably just want to document which server there is running in which power circuit and if it is secured by a UPS. You do not need to document each part of your electric power network, but within i-doit you have the potential to do so. Within each power object you can even define electricity specific values like the current voltage and the current.
You can start creating "power supply" objects in i-doit. They represent the energy company power outlet that comes to your building or an emergency power generator in your cellar. You should create atleast one power socket for each of these objects.
The next step would be to create a power object of the type "Fuse box". Within this object you create plugs and connect them to the sockets of your "power supply" objects. Then you create sockets within the fuse box, they represent the different circuits you have in your electric power network. You can define fuses to each of the sockets to have an overview of how many devices you can connect to it. (You can define fuses to every power object in i-doit, because today you can have even power distributors with their own fuses, but at this point it makes the most sense.)
The other kind of objects you can create and connect to sockets are "UPS" and "power distributors". They have both power plugs and sockets that can be connected to the power chain.
The end of the chain forms the "Power consumer", which is a category within every object and not a single power object. A power consumer can be connected to every socket in the chain. Within the power consumer category you can define how much power it consumes.
Scenarios
Power Company ---> Fuse Box A ---> UPS A ---> Power Distributor 1 ---> Server A
Diesel generator ---> Fuse Box B ---> UPS B ---> Power Distributor 2 ---> Server A
