@ Asker 14:02 Aug 7, 2019
I'm afraid you're wrong there: however general the warning, at this particualr point, we are talking about 'the welding current' (e.g. due to the particualr operation being performed) — this is quite different from avoiding 'a welding current in general'; in any case, if one were to eschew the use of 'the', then it would definitely have to be with no article; 'a' would simply be wrong here! If you said "a welding current can reach several tens of ampères", then of course it would be correct; equally, "welding currents can reach several tens of ampères". In this instance, the FR usage is correct, and exactly parallels the usage in EN. Trust mean, I know all about the damage that can be caused by welding currents! Especially the mis-routed welding current caused by a wrongly-positioned 'earth' clamp. |