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French term or phrase:
coffret de chantier
English translation:
(building) site connecting box
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Tony M
Oct 12, 2011 14:42
13 yrs ago
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French term
coffret de chantier
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
health and safety
En cas d’utilisation d’appareils électriques portatifs, l’entreprise de sous-traitance disposera d’un coffret ou d’une station de chantier, munie d’un disjoncteur différentiel 30 mA, pour la protection des personnes et des matériels
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Feb 10, 2012 23:17: Tony M Created KOG entry
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(building) site connecting box
These are the sort of things you see stuck on a post around building sites, there are now quite strict regulations as to just what they must include.
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Note that current building sitre regulations limit the length of extension leads, as pointed out by Bourth below, and hence most specifications state that a sufficient number of these 'coffrets' must be installed so that not working position is more than X metres from one; on one very extensive building site I translated the H&S requirements for (a large power station), this meant that there were dozens of these darned things to be installed, no doubt at great expense!
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Note added at 1 heure (2011-10-12 16:18:28 GMT)
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Note that current building sitre regulations limit the length of extension leads, as pointed out by Bourth below, and hence most specifications state that a sufficient number of these 'coffrets' must be installed so that not working position is more than X metres from one; on one very extensive building site I translated the H&S requirements for (a large power station), this meant that there were dozens of these darned things to be installed, no doubt at great expense!
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Bourth (X)
: Though might it not be a mobile unit, like a transformer? If there's only one of these things and the site is large, there'd be some long extension cords about!
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Thanks, Alex! No, I believe the 'coffret' is the base unit from which the other things are connected, and into which the trafos are plugged.
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Marco Solinas
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[Building] site power distribution unit
often seen as PDU
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temporary fuse box during building work
Ours is still here after 6 years
It does carry out the function of debranching wjhen there is an overload
therefore it must be a fuse box?
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-10-12 16:58:42 GMT)
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Yes ours is 30 mega amps as well
It does carry out the function of debranching wjhen there is an overload
therefore it must be a fuse box?
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-10-12 16:58:42 GMT)
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Yes ours is 30 mega amps as well
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