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DRUM CONTROLLER [3 records]

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Record 1 2017-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Appliances and Equipment
DEF

A switchgroup in which the moving contacts are arranged on the surface of an insulated drum against which the fixed contacts bear.

OBS

drum controller : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage électrique
DEF

Combinateur dont les contacts mobiles sont disposés sur la surface d'un cylindre isolé, contre laquelle s'appuient les contacts fixes.

OBS

combinateur à tambour : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Shipbuilding
CONT

The modification of the set point to the attemperator temperature controller(the secondary controller in the control loop) by the air flow and steam drum pressure in the actual algorithm is ignored in the simulation model.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions navales

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Air Conditioning and Heating
CONT

AC256 is an old product line from Andover Controls Corp. ... Some general info about the AC256: Programming is accomplished with drum programming [where] each drum has control lines, a comment line and an emergency line. In the programming there are things like flags, counters, conversion variables, expressions and external variables.

OBS

[The patent] disclosed a novel programmable sequence controller employing a revolutionary programming method, herein called asynchronous drum programming, wherein a digital computer simulates a plurality of drums, each comprising a plurality of drum lines. Each drum is assigned to a particular output to be controlled and each drum line contains one or more logical statements providing exit conditions to further drum lines. This programming method allows ordinary maintenance people to program such programmable controllers for use in energy management systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Conditionnement de l'air et chauffage

Spanish

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