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Topic Title: Better Volt drop abbreviation Topic Summary: Created On: 03 August 2012 04:25 PM Status: Post and Reply |
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 03 August 2012 04:25 PM
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I need a better abbreviation for Volt Drop than VD, just to much potential for innuendo, any ideas? Am i right in thinking theres no official symbol for it?
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03 August 2012 05:32 PM
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Well it would be simply "U" or "%U" - ie the value is either volts or a % of a stated voltage ?
Volt drop is not a unit - it's a description Regards OMS ------------------------- Failure is always an option |
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03 August 2012 06:27 PM
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Thanks OMS
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03 August 2012 08:13 PM
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I need a better abbreviation for Volt Drop than VD, just to much potential for innuendo Only from sniggering 1st year college students or those with a guilty conscience! I'd stick with VD, the vast majority will know what you mean, by all means use %U if you only want high ranking design executives to know what you mean 
On this subject, I've always thought there could be a better term used for conductive parts that do not form part of the installation - most general folk would associate the term 'extraneous' with the most common meaning 'irrelevant' - can anyone think of a better term? |
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05 August 2012 10:56 AM
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Section Transmission Drop?
Regards BAD |
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05 August 2012 03:55 PM
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just to much potential for innuendo
----------------- That's the daftest thing i've seen on here for a quite while! Dave. |
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05 August 2012 05:00 PM
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In the 60's, car registrations for Lanarkshire in Scotland were prefixed ........ VD, I still cringe thinking about it on my first car!
I'm glad it wasn't suffixed 2GO. 
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05 August 2012 06:12 PM
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Volt Loss sounds pretty innocent!
------------------------- Regards, Ebee (M I S P N) Knotted cables cause Lumpy Lektrik |
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06 August 2012 11:29 AM
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Volt Loss sounds pretty innocent! But that's just careless Ebee - 
regards OMS ------------------------- Failure is always an option |
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06 August 2012 12:41 PM
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...or ΔU or Ud? Why use an abbreviation at all and just write "Voltage drop" as then non of us will get confused?
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06 August 2012 08:17 PM
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Volt Loss sounds pretty innocent! But that's just careless Ebee -
regards OMS Well if you lose it is it that much worse than dropping it ? Both pretty clumsy things to do with them there poor little volts Either way they are dejected volts. Eureka! DV instead of VD, I`ve solved it
------------------------- Regards, Ebee (M I S P N) Knotted cables cause Lumpy Lektrik |
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06 August 2012 08:45 PM
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You've cracked it Ebee, DV = dropped voltage, that should satisfy the more sensitive of us!
Dave. |
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06 August 2012 10:56 PM
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- I'm gonna use that someday soon !!
Regards OMS ------------------------- Failure is always an option |
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07 August 2012 08:34 AM
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Mislaid Potential?
Abbreviated to MP - that says it all. Edited: 07 August 2012 at 01:59 PM by Boyobach |
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