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French term
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Les départs
This comes from specifications for an electrical installation. I'm not sure about the translation of départs in this context..outgoing currents?
Many thanks for any help
Dans tous les cas, les raccordements doivent être réalisés de telle manière qu'une mesure d'intensité puisse être effectuée sur chaque conducteur à l'aide d'une pince ampèremètrique de modèle courant.
Les départs sont regroupés sur un bornier situé en partie latérale de l'armoire.
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Tony M
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Oct 24, 2011 12:19: Tony M changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/910931">Anne Greaves's</a> old entry - "Les départs"" to ""outgoing feed""
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Proposed translations
outgoing feed
There are several ways of wording it, but I feel confident this would be an appropriate, natural way of expressing it here.
It means that the wire connections feeding power out of this [thing] need to be grouped together conveniently in one place, instead of muddled up all over the place with other incoming feeds, perhaps...
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Note added at 1 heure (2011-10-18 10:53:43 GMT)
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Herbie has kindly suggested 'feeder', which is certainly a possibility; I think it really depends a lot on the wider context, which we don't have.
To my mind, if these were individual power feeds going out to say lighting, power sockets, lift motors, etc., then I would think of them as 'feeds' (smaller); but if they are thumping great cables big enough to feed a whole building, or a floor of one, for example, then I would certainly consider them as 'feeders' — but this is more a 'feeling' thing than any hard-and-fast technical issue.
Very often, we may find an incoming mains feeder supplying a distribution cabinet, which splits this incoming supply down to individual feeds for different destinations.
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Note added at 1 heure (2011-10-18 11:11:30 GMT)
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Right! Thanks, Anne, that's very important extra context!
Now we know this is a power generation situation, that makes all the difference!
Do we know at what point in the generation process we are here? Is this at PV cell level, or actually at the final converted AC output stage?
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| The document is about the installation of a centrale photovoltaique. I'm only translating a part of it which makes context a bit problematic. |
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the outsets
The outsets are regrouped on...
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: Quite the wrong term, I'm afraid, in this very specific, technical context.
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