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Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / Diagnostics of onboard pr | | French term or phrase: la loi de jauge | Niveau de carburant mesuré par BSI égal à la valeur indiquée dans la loi de jauge
No, it's not law of the jungle, but gauge law? Gauge specifications, or gauge settings?
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kashew
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| Grading comment Merci. This fitted quite well and made better reading than 'law'
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42 mins confidence:   gauge settings
Explanation:
The webpages that contain "loi de jauge" all seem to be referring to gauge settings, i.e. the fuel gauge reading 3/4 full, for example, when the fuel tank is actually 3/4 full. Google "gauge settings" and "fuel gauge settings" and you'll see that the content seems to match what appears on French-language pages that use "loi de jauge." A roundabout way of arriving at an answer, perhaps, but I'm reasonably confident that this is it. This is not my field, however--an automotive engineer or mechanic may say that there is a more idiomatic term than "gauge settings."
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1 hr confidence: law of the gauge
Explanation:
...or yes, gauge law, I suppose (not personally familiar with that term)
gauges of all sorts are rarely linear, so some kind of conversion factor needs to be used, to convert (say) logarithmic output values into meaningful linear measurements; in practice, fuel gauges may have all sorts of odd laws; the old fashioned ones were basically a float connected via an arm to a wire-wound rheostat, so of course the value depended on the angular displacement of the arm, giving a highly non-linear lawy with respect to the tank level; then again, if the tank profile is not regular, that will introduce yet another non-linearity; and of course old-fashioned hot-wire ammeter indicating devices used to introduce yet another linearity problem!
'law' is comonly used in this way, for example, for linear, semi-log or logarithmic potentiometers, once used for rotary (or indeed slider) volume controls.
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Asker: I'll think about this one - any suggestions for my 'apport' at this early hour?
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