RE: UPAMD updated goals
arjan strijker [arjan.strijker@xxxxxxx] wrote:
>> i. Device may be capable of being a source as well as a sink of power
> No, just a power source, no power sink.
Device, not adapter. Adapter (power supply) could be only power source.
>> ii. Able to share power for mission critical or business critical applications if willing
> Only if this does not make the adapter more complicated.
Adapter has nothing with it - it render only (some) devices more complicated. Phone would be probably only sink, but laptop could be sink and source (for e.g. phone).
>> ii. Consider isolation to meet medical power needs
> No, I do not believe that medical will use universal adapters.
> Also this will make all adapters more expensive for just a few medical applications.
> Maybe a special version universal adapter that can identify itself as being suitable for medical applications.
Medical devices - also devices compatible with IEEE 11073-30200 series, some of them (almost everyone of them) are to be at home.
Medical restrictions are not meant "to be harder", but "more safely"; as we want power supply to last many years, it could be somewhat more expensive.