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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng | | French term or phrase: tourelles | From an inventory list for a laboratory on electricity:
"Boîte de résistances 4 ***tourelles*** en coffret, commutateurs rotatifs avec douilles de sécurité F 4 mm comprenant des groupes de 10 résistances de 1 W, 10 W, 100 W, 1000W, courant max : 20 mA à 700 mA"
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| | 4-decade resistance box | Explanation:
I have to own up that this is a pure guess — but an intelligent one, I hope, that may possibly start you off on the right track.
The way these resistance boxes are usually arranged, they have (say) 4 knobs, one for the units, one for the tens, one for the hundreds, and one for the thousands of OHMS — I think this is what your text is trying to way, although it unfortunately uses 'W' which makes it sounds like 'Watts'! However, that would not be technically logical — a 1 kW resistor?! Unlikely!
But do remember that the symbol for the Ohm is Ω, the Greek letter capital omega, which is of course = W! Now if someone had carefully entered Ω in Symbol, and then someone else has globally changed the entire document to another font, hey presto! Ω becomes W.
As far as the 'tourelles' are concerned, I don't know ewactly what they mean, except that such things are (were) often built around wafer switches, which when clad with resistors do look rather 'turret-like' — and 'turret switch' is indeed a term used to describe just this sort of switch arangement, as used to be used for clunky old channel-change switches in the days when TVs only had about 11 channels to choose from!
So I think the FR 'tourelle' describes the TYPE of switch used, whereas normal EN usage would describe the FUNCTION of that switch, i.e. as a 'decade' switch. |
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Tony M
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2 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 | boîte de résistance 4 tourelles 4-decade resistance box
Explanation:
I have to own up that this is a pure guess — but an intelligent one, I hope, that may possibly start you off on the right track.
The way these resistance boxes are usually arranged, they have (say) 4 knobs, one for the units, one for the tens, one for the hundreds, and one for the thousands of OHMS — I think this is what your text is trying to way, although it unfortunately uses 'W' which makes it sounds like 'Watts'! However, that would not be technically logical — a 1 kW resistor?! Unlikely!
But do remember that the symbol for the Ohm is Ω, the Greek letter capital omega, which is of course = W! Now if someone had carefully entered Ω in Symbol, and then someone else has globally changed the entire document to another font, hey presto! Ω becomes W.
As far as the 'tourelles' are concerned, I don't know ewactly what they mean, except that such things are (were) often built around wafer switches, which when clad with resistors do look rather 'turret-like' — and 'turret switch' is indeed a term used to describe just this sort of switch arangement, as used to be used for clunky old channel-change switches in the days when TVs only had about 11 channels to choose from!
So I think the FR 'tourelle' describes the TYPE of switch used, whereas normal EN usage would describe the FUNCTION of that switch, i.e. as a 'decade' switch.
| Tony M
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