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Duree Morte

English translation: down time

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French term or phrase:	Duree Morte
English translation:	down time
Entered by:	Ritu Bhanot

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06:15 Feb 19, 2006

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French term or phrase: Duree Morte

110 kV
La duree morte minimume pour la refermeture: 300 ms

Ritu Bhanot KudoZ activity Questions: 43 (3 open) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 210 France
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down time

Explanation:
the amount of time the unit can be down during closing.

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Theresa Lynch
United States
Local time: 20:39

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Thanks. Seemed closer to what I was looking for.
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dead time

Michael Barnett

down time

Theresa Lynch

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dead time

Explanation:
http://rkb.home.cern.ch/rkb/PH14pp/node41.html

Absolute dead time is a span of time during which a detector, or an associated readout system, is unable to record new information. Relative dead time is the average ratio of dead time to total time.

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The millisecond portion of the latency time (dead time) between adjacent data values...
http://image.msfc.nasa.gov/ChrisDocs/UDFPMan/IDFData.html

Michael Barnett
Canada
Local time: 20:39
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