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leslie
Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 244
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: trip on |
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Hi,
I couldn't find the meaning of 'trip on' when I looked up several English dictionaries.
1. What does "trip on" mean in the following paragraph?
2. Does overload mean 'load' or 'load too much'?
Thanks in advance!
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One of our customers had her ABC band saw for about a month and her motor failed�.she was cutting with it and the blade came to a stop, the overload was tripping on the dc driver board, the serial number for the machine is 12345. |
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Philo Kevetch
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 564
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Leslie -
"tripping on" = 'turning on', activating
In your example, I think "trip" means to disconnect (break the connection in a circuit)
as in "trip a circuit breaker"...usually due to overloading the circuit (overload = too much of a load)
drawing/pulling too many amps. for the circuit design/guage of wire
and is a safety device to prevent overheating the circuit and possiblly causing a melt down or fire.
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