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Re: [802.3_SPMD] D2.0 comments 297 and 269



Thank you for your clarification.

The design burden I am referring is about the auxiliary power supply. If I am designing an industrial control system, it is very likely I already have a 24V bus feeds digital I/O, relay, panel, etc…  It would be much easier if I can tap MPSE into that 24V power supply. You are correct that -10% tolerance seems too arbitrary and maybe too conservative, but we are still talking about 24V – x%(we can debate what x should be), not 26V, which will require additional circuits to boost voltage. Keep in mind that x% is not only just for the tolerance, but also for the voltage drop in the circuit need to provide function and protection.

 

I am not sure about my mistake on the MPD power. The number is listed in table 189-9

 

So if I were a design engineer to implement this, I would have checked my total load requirement. If it is 16W, I would choose type 0.  if I need just 1 W more, I would have to bump up to type 1.  So increasing VMPSE(min), therefore higher guaranteed MPSE power does not really help me. Even if VMPSE(min) is 26V and MPSE and MPD are next to each other so 0 voltage drop between them, technically MPD can pull full 26W(26V x 1A) from MPSE, but I still can not do that without change on table 189-9 at the same time, because my design is limited by PMPD in table 189-9, not PMPSE in table 189-1.  Did I misunderstand anything here?

 

 

 


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From: Chad Jones (cmjones) <cmjones@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 11:56 AM
To: Zach Pan <zach.pan@xxxxxx>; STDS-802-3-SPMD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: D2.0 comments 297 and 269

 

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Zach, discussion here is encouraged, thanks for your reply.

 

You are correct in that I left out the power lost to the cable in my rough estimates for MPD power. That additional loss further exacerbates problem, as incremental power is allocated to the mixing segment. This means the numbers in my previous email are best case numbers…

 

You are mistaken to use the min MPD voltage to calculate MPD power. I was also careful to state I was talking about guaranteed MPSE power. The Min MPD voltage is what the last MPD on the mixing segment might see, but not what every MPD will see. It hurts the head at times to think about this as the number of elements get hard to juggle. I’ve assembled a spreadsheet to help better estimate what a system might get per PD, I expect to write an annex at some point and post that spreadsheet on the 802.3 site which 802.3 customers could use to help better engineer their system. It’s part of a bigger issue I have with the draft and unit loads, but that’s a whole other rathole that I will avoid right now.  

 

Restricting the minimum MPSE voltage isn’t a burden on MPDs or MPSEs. It’s a burden on the power supply one might use to power the MPSE. My recollection of the discussion over time was that it’s a small burden to insist the MPSE supply has a tighter “minus” tolerance than to cripple every installation by making the lower limit artificially low. What’s the reality that you’ll encounter a “24 V system” at 21.6 volts?

 

Regards,

 

Chad Jones

Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems

Executive Secretary, IEEE 802.3 Working Group

Chair, IEEE P802.3da Task Force

Principal, NFPA 70 CMP3

 

From: Zach Pan <00003dccdc202a28-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 11:36
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Subject: Re: [802.3_SPMD] D2.0 comments 297 and 269

Newbie here. Not sure if I am supposed to reply to this email or use a different channel for my comments. Please let me know.

 

This is a topic that Schneider are closely followed. In our industrial drive or other equipment, 24V is a commonly used auxiliary power supply voltage, with a typical tolerance band of -10% to +20%, which translates to 21.6Vmin and  28.8V max. So, we appreciate the comment that calls out that change. Otherwise, it will break the voltage compatibility and require us to add some unnecessary circuit to satisfy a 26V VMPSE(min).

 

As for the concerns of max power for MPD. It is limited by VMPD(min) and IMPSE(min), which is 16V and 1A in the draft D2.0. 16 W is the limit of type 0 configuration anyway, and the user are supposed to use type 1 for higher power anyway. So I don’t see the change of VMPSE(min) have any negative impact on that.

 

Of course. The large gap between VMPSE(min) and VMPD(min) would allows longer wire and higher resistance drop on the wire. The proposed change would reduce the voltage drop allowed on the wire from 10V to 5.6 V, which means the max wire resistance allowed changes from 10Ohm to 5.6 Ohm.  I don’t see that as a problem, but we could specify a minimum wire size for given wire length to guarantee that is meet.

 

 

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From: Chad Jones (cmjones) <00000b60b3f54e8d-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 9:26 AM
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Subject: [802.3_SPMD] D2.0 comments 297 and 269

 

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These two comments assert that the VMPSEmin voltage should not be 26 V but instead should be 21.6 V. I dug through the history and this text was added in Nov 2023, via this presentation: https://www.ieee802.org/3/da/public/1123/clause169_clean.pdf (though there is a presentation there with markups and I don’t recall if this is something we marked up during the meeting and imported the edited version: https://www.ieee802.org/3/da/public/1123/clause169_edits.pdf). Regardless of which file was used, Table 169-1 is the same in both locations:

 

So VMPSEmin has been 26 V from the start. I’m opposed to lowering the minimum voltage because that will then also lower the guaranteed MPSE power. The average power available to an MPD is already low (26 V * 1 A / 16 nodes = 1.625 W), the change to 21.6 would reduce by about a quarter watt per MPD, or about 17%. I’ve stated many times, the one complaint we will get after publication is “how do I get more power, I need X more watts for my application.”  I’m very focused on optimizing power delivered to prevent a follow-on standard only to raise the power.

 

I’d expect a presentation justifying 21.6 V and it will take convincing 75% of the TF to make this change. I will not be one of those 75%.

 

Regards,

 

Chad Jones

Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems

Executive Secretary, IEEE 802.3 Working Group

Chair, IEEE P802.3da Task Force

Principal, NFPA 70 CMP3


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