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SHUNT AMPEREMETRE [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
CONT

An ammeter shunt allows the measurement of current values too large to be directly measured by a particular ammeter. In this case the shunt, a manganin resistor of accurately known resistance, is placed in parallel with the moving coil galvanometer, thus all of the current to be measured will flow through it.

OBS

ammeter shunt: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits
OBS

En électrotechnique, un shunt est un dispositif de très faible impédance qui permet au courant de passer d'un point à un autre d'un circuit électrique en utilisant très peu d'énergie.

OBS

shunt d'ampèremètre : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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