Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

cellules de protection transformateur par inter et disjoncteur

English translation:

transformer protection cubicle with switch(-fuse) and circuit-breaker

Added to glossary by Tony M
Jul 26, 2018 06:10
6 yrs ago
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French term

cellules de protection transformateur par inter et disjoncteur

French to English Tech/Engineering Electronics / Elect Eng
A section of a document entitled 'Courants forts' (which I understand to be power and lighting installations) reads as follows: 'Le poste de livraison principal HT/BT est situé au niveau de l'entrepont, il est composé de ... 3 cellules de protection transformateur par inter et disjoncteur'.
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French term (edited): cellule de protection transformateur par inter et disjoncteur
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transformer protection cubicle using switch and circuit-breaker

Only medium C/L because 'inter'.' is ambiguous: it could be just an 'interrupteur' = 'switch'; BUT there are other possibilities, such as a switch-fuse; if you have a diagram, you may be able to tell from the symbol used, or other cluse in your text.

Wpuld probably be enater to re-arrange the word order so as to get rid of 'using' by making the terms qualifiers.
Note from asker:
Thanks so much to everyone, especially Tony M and BD Finch. I went with BD Finch's 'more succinct' suggestion so would like to acknowledge both suggestions if possible ...
Peer comment(s):

agree Herbie : or:... using isolator and circuit-breaker
17 mins
Thanks, Herbie Troucle is, 'siolator' is often 'sectionneur', and I've see 'inter + sectionneur', which would leave us in a bit of a pickle here ;-)
agree B D Finch : As you suggested: switch and circuit-breaker transformer protection cubicle?
7 hrs
Thanks, B! Yes, I think that would be more succinct.
agree Garoubet (X) : Inter stands for "inter-fusible" usually in this context. The cubicle must be protected either by fuse or breaker. There is no switch for protection. The standard way of translating is transformer protection cubicle with...
9 hrs
Thanks, Garoubet! That's very much what I was thinking
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