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registrador com catraca

English translation: electric meter with a built-in ratchet


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12:55 Nov 5, 2011
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Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Metrologia
Portuguese term or phrase: registrador com catraca
2.2.16 Registrador com catraca: Registra a energia em um único sentido de fluxo e não é alterado na ocorrência do fluxo de energia oposto.
mcirino
Local time: 02:01
English translation:electric meter with a built-in ratchet
Explanation:
Just a suggestion. Sounds quite logical to me.
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Joao Marcelo Trovao
Local time: 02:01
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Obrigado
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4 +1electric meter with a built-in ratchet
Joao Marcelo Trovao
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unirectional
meirs

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electric meter with a built-in ratchet


Explanation:
Just a suggestion. Sounds quite logical to me.

Joao Marcelo Trovao
Local time: 02:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Obrigado

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Taylor: sounds pretty good to me
9 mins
  -> Thanks Nick

neutral  Peter Canden: I suspect that this is a diode equipped meter, a diode limits the direction of electrical flow
1 hr
  -> It could be, but it specifically mentions "catraca". Thanks
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6 hrs
Reference: unirectional

Reference information:
Landys & Gyr call it "unidirectional" - see page 5 of the brochure at the link below


    Reference: http://style.landisgyr.com/apps/products/data/pdf1/D00001143...
meirs
Israel
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Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
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