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French: chauffe-eau électrique à accumulation

English translation: electric storage water heaters



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GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
French term or phrase:chauffe-eau électrique à accumulation
English translation:electric storage water heaters
Entered by:Conor McAuley
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French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Furniture / Household Appliances / Type of water heater (boiler)
French term or phrase: chauffe-eau électrique à accumulation
Thanks.
Conor McAuley
France
electric (nightà storage water heaters
Explanation:
Electric Night Storage Heaters. Electric storage heaters are a less expensive ... GSHPs tend to work most efficiently when raising water to a temperature ...
www.nef.org.uk/energyadvice/storageheating.htm - 24k
Format de fichier: Microsoft Word - Version HTML
Electric Water Heater. Electric Night Storage water heater. Electric Night Storage Water Heater. Electric instantaneous water heater. Electric Water Heater ...
www.dcmnr.gov.ie/NR/rdonlyres/ 7DEC0FB3-3B55-430B-94F1-7177141E8998/0/DraftDirectiveelectricV16A290405.doc
For electric water heaters, install a timer that can automatically turn the hot water off at night and on in the morning. Install a heat trap above the ...
msucares.com/pubs/publications/p2248.html - 17k


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Note added at 5 mins (2006-05-10 10:43:25 GMT)
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sorry .. that should be (night) storage water heaters!!
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suezen
France
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Thanks to all.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3electric (nightà storage water heaters
suezen
3 +2immersion heater
Suzanne Withers
4((DHW) storage) cylinderBourth


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
electric (nightà storage water heaters

Explanation:
Electric Night Storage Heaters. Electric storage heaters are a less expensive ... GSHPs tend to work most efficiently when raising water to a temperature ...
www.nef.org.uk/energyadvice/storageheating.htm - 24k
Format de fichier: Microsoft Word - Version HTML
Electric Water Heater. Electric Night Storage water heater. Electric Night Storage Water Heater. Electric instantaneous water heater. Electric Water Heater ...
www.dcmnr.gov.ie/NR/rdonlyres/ 7DEC0FB3-3B55-430B-94F1-7177141E8998/0/DraftDirectiveelectricV16A290405.doc
For electric water heaters, install a timer that can automatically turn the hot water off at night and on in the morning. Install a heat trap above the ...
msucares.com/pubs/publications/p2248.html - 17k


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Note added at 5 mins (2006-05-10 10:43:25 GMT)
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sorry .. that should be (night) storage water heaters!!

suezen
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 18
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks to all.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Kate Hudson
21 mins
  -> thanks Kate
agree Bourth: Sorry, the mixup over the parentheses threw me and I read "night" as an integral part of your answer.
25 mins
  -> thanks Bourth ... finger slipped between 2 keys and then posted without noticing!
agree Ingeborg Gowans
1 hr
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
((DHW) storage) cylinder

Explanation:
It's a storage cylinder heating domestic hot water (gas or electric) , as opposed to an instantaneous water heater (gas or electric) where water comes into the device, is heated, and is used immediately. It is not necessarily a night-storage system, though it usually is (electric).

cylinder, storage cylinder. A close circular tank for storing domestic h ot water ... Domestic cylinders are usually storage water heaters, with direct electric or gas heating ...

domestic hot water (DHW) Water for washing ... Small installations have a storage cylinder or instantaneous water heater ...
[Scott/Penguin Building]

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Note added at 29 mins (2006-05-10 11:07:19 GMT)
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The construction of the DHW storage cylinder guarantees that hot water is always available at the required temperature and in the right volume. ...
www.viessmann.de/web/germany/ com_publish.nsf/Content/Vitodens333

The DHW storage cylinder’s temperature during the Occupied. period. This item can only be adjusted if a kanmor sensor is used to. measure the DHW cylinder ...
www.kanmor.com/literature/u363e.pdf

This comprises a boiler and a hot water storage cylinder having a capacity of ... In a conventional DHW tank, the transfer coil is connected to the boiler, ...
www.diyfaq.org.uk/plumbing/plumbingpage1.html

Second heating coil in DHW storage cylinder. Wind turbines. Import/export meter as standard. Wiring from meter location to suitable external point ...
www.odpm.gov.uk/embedded_object.asp?id=1162803


Bourth
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 26
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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
immersion heater

Explanation:
Immersion heater is often used in British English


    Reference: http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/domestic_hot_water_syst...
Suzanne Withers
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree suezen: You're right, I've often heard this.
1 hr
  -> Thanks suezen
agree Bourth: Yes, since it is exclusively electric, though strictly speaking the immersion heater is only the heating element, not the cylinder.
1 hr
  -> That's true, but we tend to use the term to indicate the "whole". Thanks Bourth
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