Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Stromkabelkanalschiene

English translation:

bus bar system

Added to glossary by altehu
May 5, 2004 13:43
20 yrs ago
German term

Stromkabelkanalschiene

German to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general)
about an automatic guided vehicle system

"Die führungs-/Stromkabelkanalschiene bilden eine Einheit"

Thank you

Proposed translations

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bus bar system

The guide rail and (power) bus bar system form an integrated unit.
I am not sure if this is 100% correct in this context, but I hope it helps.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks i think it works in this context"
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5 mins

power cable duct rail

Kabelkanal = cable duct
Schiene = rail
Strom = power
Peer comment(s):

agree John Wellesly Helliwell : and - hello again - talk about the sublime to the ridiculous - eh!
42 mins
neutral Ken Cox : plausible (not meant to be negative!), but see my separate comment
56 mins
Where's your separate comment, Ken? Note my level of confidence.
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comment

If you take the word and the sentence at face value, Kim's suggestion is a reasonable and plausible translation. For it to be correct, the object in question would have to be formed as a ducted rail housing the power cable, and the sentence effectively says that the (ducted) power cable rail has been merged with the guide rail(s).
However, it may be that the author got a bit ahead of himself and/or got carried away by the attractiveness of the aaa- /bbb construction in German, and what he actually means to say is that the guidance function and the power supply function (in the mechanical sense of a slider travelling along a cable) have been integrated into a single rail (or rail system), which is ducted and has the cable inside (or inside one of the rails) for protection, insulation and prevention of accidental contact.
With luck, you may be able to decide from the context whether any of this is on the mark
Peer comment(s):

agree John Jory : I also read it to mean Führungsschiene/Stromkabelkanal as a combined unit
1 hr
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current-carrying rail

"Power cable duct rail" as proposed by Kim finds no Google hits, neither does "current carrying cable rail" but "current-carrying rail" has quite a few Google hits which refer to the term in a similar context. A little more context, however, would have been more useful. The level of confidence, however, is medium, as indicated.
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