toddkarin
commented
4 years ago A few notes from our conversation today:
- What is scope? pv-terms is a list of variable names primarily for PV system modeling. As a secondary use, we want it to be extensible to pv operation data storage, but it is difficult to make a fully consistent method that works for everything. We can resolve this by including a translation column for Gantner data naming. Don't need to compete with orange button.
- Problem: Underscores are used to deliminate semantic variables and also modifiers. This can make parsing difficult, but there isn't a convenient way around this that works for python variable naming.
- Robert White mentioned that they use a naming convention with the most general to the left (e.g. voltage), and ID to the right.
- Uniformity: we can improve uniformity by making everything that is a voltage, current or power, start with that.
- Shortness: A few more abbreviations (e.g. vac instead of voltage_ac) might make the scheme a little more elegant.
steve-ransome
adriesse
SRCL_GI_PVPMC_naming_200430t093.pdf
Steve Ransome (SRCL) and Juergen Sutterlueti (Gantner Instruments) have been working with Gantner instruments for many years to help them develop a naming convention which they've been using, here are some constructive comments including problems we'd seen and had to overcome.
We look forward to contributing and answering any comments.