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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / power circuits | | French term or phrase: à coupure visible | Les départs puissance en tête d’armoires seront équipés d’interrupteurs-sectionneurs tripolaires à doubles coupure visible.
Not sure if this is a visible circuit breaker? |
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| | with visible break | Explanation:
131 GGLs for ("circuit breaker" + "visible break"). Check it out. What it means is that there must be no doubt that the circuit is open, as would be the case if a lever, say, were positioned up or down, because people might forget which is the "trip" position! Whether it means the contacts are to be visibly apart or that there is to be some sort of "flag", like a coloured tag that protrudes when the circuit is broke, I don't know.
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Note added at 1 hr 40 mins (2004-04-01 20:02:07 GMT)
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Note that many of the examples referred to speak of \"isolating switches\", which is what \"intérrupteurs-sectionneurs\" are. They are deliberately opened to make a circuit safe to work on. A circuit-breaker on the other hand will trip automatically when there is some kind of fault, overload, etc.
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Note added at 1 hr 50 mins (2004-04-01 20:12:15 GMT)
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<<Visible Break Isolators (VBI) - Indicate the state of the contacts by a flag mounted on the body of the switch. The flag is viewed through a window in the switch cabinet;>>
[http://www.icande.com.au/Redbusbar/Switchek.htm]
Isolating Means - The isolating means is Fault Making, Load Breaking, visible break disconnect switch externally operable
[www.joslynclark.com/downloads/ SectionFFirePumpControl.pdf]
The Producer shall provide a loadbreak gang-operated isolating switch with a visible break at the point of delivery to BCH, accessible to BCH at all times and capable of being secured by a standard BCH padlock
[www.bchydro.com/rx_files/info/info2154.pdf]
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1 hr confidence:  peer agreement (net): +6 | à coupure visible with visible break
Explanation:
131 GGLs for ("circuit breaker" + "visible break"). Check it out. What it means is that there must be no doubt that the circuit is open, as would be the case if a lever, say, were positioned up or down, because people might forget which is the "trip" position! Whether it means the contacts are to be visibly apart or that there is to be some sort of "flag", like a coloured tag that protrudes when the circuit is broke, I don't know.
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Note added at 1 hr 40 mins (2004-04-01 20:02:07 GMT)
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Note that many of the examples referred to speak of \"isolating switches\", which is what \"intérrupteurs-sectionneurs\" are. They are deliberately opened to make a circuit safe to work on. A circuit-breaker on the other hand will trip automatically when there is some kind of fault, overload, etc.
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Note added at 1 hr 50 mins (2004-04-01 20:12:15 GMT)
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<<Visible Break Isolators (VBI) - Indicate the state of the contacts by a flag mounted on the body of the switch. The flag is viewed through a window in the switch cabinet;>>
[http://www.icande.com.au/Redbusbar/Switchek.htm]
Isolating Means - The isolating means is Fault Making, Load Breaking, visible break disconnect switch externally operable
[www.joslynclark.com/downloads/ SectionFFirePumpControl.pdf]
The Producer shall provide a loadbreak gang-operated isolating switch with a visible break at the point of delivery to BCH, accessible to BCH at all times and capable of being secured by a standard BCH padlock
[www.bchydro.com/rx_files/info/info2154.pdf]
| xxxBourth
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