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English translation: chopper drive

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French term or phrase:	pilotage hacheur
English translation:	chopper drive
Entered by:	Stephanie Mitchel

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02:51 Nov 12, 2009

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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng

French term or phrase: pilotage hacheur

Not much context as this is the only mention of the term in the entire document:

"Une notice de fonctionnement [...] décrit une fonction, depuis les capteurs jusqu'aux actionneurs en suivant le découpage du synoptique associé.
Exemples :
- traction ;
- pilotage hacheur ;
- antienrayeur remorque ;
- surveillance de l'instabilité bogie."

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chopper drive

Explanation:
hacheur = chopper (colloquial name for some kind of switch-mode power circuit)
pilotage = drive, driving, or possibly driver, depending on the context

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-11-12 09:56:27 GMT)
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Although 'chopper' was originally an ifnormal term, I think it has now been widely accepted into standard technical jargon, and it seems to me the correct register to translate the (a priori) equally informal FR term.

I agree with Polyglot that 'controller' might well be the better term to use, though one perhaps has to ask oneself why the FR uses the specific term 'pilotage'...

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Tony M
France
Local time: 09:32

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chopper drive

Tony M

thyristor control

kashew

chopper control

polyglot45

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chopper drive

Tony M
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Thanks Tony!

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chopper control

Explanation:
Wapedia - Wiki: MTR M-Train EMU22 Sep 2009 ... Traction system is through GTO chopper control. ... They were the last batch of MTR M-Trains to be made by Metro Cammell before being ...
wapedia.mobi/en/MTR_M-Train_EMU

GTO = gate turn off

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Note added at 12 hrs (2009-11-12 15:40:38 GMT)
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@Tony - pilotage is cropping up increasingly all over the place at the moment....in technical texts

polyglot45
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French
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thyristor control

Explanation:
Or thyristor chopper control. As chopper has several meanings (technical and slang!) thyristor seems better to me.

kashew
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