les bras déportés

English translation: outreach arms

11:04 Aug 13, 2006
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Wind Power
French term or phrase: les bras déportés
From a report on setting up a wind measuring mast. The diagram shows an arm attached to the mast by a bracket which looks as if it is meant to rotate around the mast. The instrumentation installed on the arm consists of anemometers and wind vanes. Any suggestions appreciated. Here is the text.

"Mise en place et câblage de l’instrumentation:
Assemblage support instrumentation déporté

La mise en place de l’instrumentation sur les bras déportés se fait dans l’ordre des figures 4, 5 et 6."
Chris Pott
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:20
English translation:outreach arms
Explanation:
It's a term I've encountered for the arms at the top of lighting columns, where the lamps are attached.

From my notes:

Crosse Outreach arm, bracket arm, carrying arm (lighting)

Installation of traffic signal mast arm [with | without] road lighting luminaire. spigot, with [length] metres long outreach arm ...
www.mainroads.qld.gov.au/MRWEB/prod/CONTENT.NSF/0/6a6ef81f8...$FILE/MRS1193.pdf

large cantilever traffic signal mast (a traffic. signal on a 6 m high, 5.5 m outreach arm). The goal is, as with the previous projects on ...
ukwes.bham.ac.uk/newsletters/oct2003.pdf

Luminaires shall generally be mounted on outreach arms of 3m or 4.5m. […]
outreach arm Bracket extending out from lighting column on to which the luminaire is mounted.
http://www.roads.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/12545/ds1...



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4crossbars
Jennifer Levey
3extended arms
Roddy Stegemann
3outreach arms
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extended arms


Explanation:
Just a starter.

Roddy Stegemann
United States
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outreach arms


Explanation:
It's a term I've encountered for the arms at the top of lighting columns, where the lamps are attached.

From my notes:

Crosse Outreach arm, bracket arm, carrying arm (lighting)

Installation of traffic signal mast arm [with | without] road lighting luminaire. spigot, with [length] metres long outreach arm ...
www.mainroads.qld.gov.au/MRWEB/prod/CONTENT.NSF/0/6a6ef81f8...$FILE/MRS1193.pdf

large cantilever traffic signal mast (a traffic. signal on a 6 m high, 5.5 m outreach arm). The goal is, as with the previous projects on ...
ukwes.bham.ac.uk/newsletters/oct2003.pdf

Luminaires shall generally be mounted on outreach arms of 3m or 4.5m. […]
outreach arm Bracket extending out from lighting column on to which the luminaire is mounted.
http://www.roads.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/12545/ds1...





Bourth (X)
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crossbars


Explanation:
Horizontal bar attached at/near the top of the mast, carrying the instruments. The aim is to keep the anemometer etc. some way away from the mast, to avoid turbulence effects.

Jennifer Levey
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