Electricity

Electricity

A database referring to the existence of a flow of electric charge.

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Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A common thermoplastic insulation and jacketing material used to manufacture building wire and other types of wire and and cable. It is also used in the manufacture of plastic conduit.

Raceway

Electrical equipment; Electricity

An enclosed channel designed expressly for holding conductors and cables, including conduit and tubing, wire ways, and bus ways.

When an application is run it is called from the permanent storage area such as hard drive, floppy disk, or CD-ROM, and moved into the RAM where, it sends requests to the CPU. Using faster memory can ...

Range

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Nominal operating limits, specified by the lowest calibration point to the highest calibration point.

Rated capacity (battery)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

The number of Amp-Hours a battery can deliver under specific conditions (rate of discharge, end voltage, temperature).

Alarm

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A signal for attracting attention to some abnormal event.

All-or-nothing relay

Electrical equipment; Electricity

An electrical relay which is intended to be energised by a quantity, whose value is either higher than that at which it picks up or lower than that at which it drops out.