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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng | | French term or phrase: évacuation de l’énergie potentielle | This is an item from a checklist of worker safety requirements for a tooling/brazing laser station:
"Présence d’un ou plusieurs systèmes d’arrêt d’urgence coupant l’alimentation laser (Evacuation de l’énergie potentielle) ainsi que la puissance des différents actionneurs de l’équipement."
"Evacuation de l’énergie potentielle": Should the term for this be "potential energy discharge," "potential energy release," "p.e. exhaust," or something else entirely?
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| | discharge of potential OR stored energy OR charge | Explanation:
As so often, I would prefer to turn the noun expression into a verb one, if the rest of your list will allow.
It is not entirely clear which particular potential energy they are thinking of, but we usually use this term more in connection with mechanical rather than electrical systems — 'potential energy' is the mechanical equivalent of electrical 'stored charge', which might be a better term to go for.
The list seems a little uncoordinated — there seems to be no immediate connection between the provision of emergency stop switches and the discharging of hiigh-voltage capacitors (which is probably what they are referring to, given the rest of the context) — and especially, as they put it in parenthesis, which seems pointless and inappropriate to me.
I suspect this may just be poorly written... |
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Tony M
France
Local time: 09:46
| Grading comment Thanks for confirming my suspicions that the source text was unclear, and thanks very much to Tony, Richard, and Charles.
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10 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): -1 emit
Explanation:
how about emit/give off/release ?
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12 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 discharge of potential OR stored energy OR charge
Explanation:
As so often, I would prefer to turn the noun expression into a verb one, if the rest of your list will allow.
It is not entirely clear which particular potential energy they are thinking of, but we usually use this term more in connection with mechanical rather than electrical systems — 'potential energy' is the mechanical equivalent of electrical 'stored charge', which might be a better term to go for.
The list seems a little uncoordinated — there seems to be no immediate connection between the provision of emergency stop switches and the discharging of hiigh-voltage capacitors (which is probably what they are referring to, given the rest of the context) — and especially, as they put it in parenthesis, which seems pointless and inappropriate to me.
I suspect this may just be poorly written...
| Tony M
France
Local time: 09:46
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| | Grading comment | Thanks for confirming my suspicions that the source text was unclear, and thanks very much to Tony, Richard, and Charles. |
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