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  2. Trailer connectors in North America - Wikipedia

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    If you have a trailer with a lot of lights the diode and relay wiring is preferred, but if you have a trailer with a simple light arrangement it is usually sufficient to wire to 58L. In market there are many special converters [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] that solves the problem of connecting a car with European wiring to a trailer with North American wiring.

  3. Braking chopper - Wikipedia

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    Braking chopper. Braking choppers, sometimes also referred to as Braking units, are used in the DC voltage intermediate circuits of frequency converters to control voltage when the load feeds energy back to the intermediate circuit.

  4. Safety wire - Wikipedia

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    Safety wire is commonly 0.5, 0.6, 0.8 or 1 mm (0.020, 0.025, 0.032 or 0.041 in) in diameter, but 0.5-and-1 mm (0.021-and-0.051 in) diameters are also available. It is usually made of stainless steel, but is also available in monel and inconel alloys for high temperature applications and copper for break-away applications. [7]

  5. Avalanche breakdown - Wikipedia

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    Avalanche breakdown (or the avalanche effect) is a phenomenon that can occur in both insulating and semiconducting materials. It is a form of electric current multiplication that can allow very large currents within materials which are otherwise good insulators.

  6. John Hopkinson - Wikipedia

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    He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics , and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at King's College London , where he was also director of the Siemens Laboratory .

  7. Hearts in Atlantis (film) - Wikipedia

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    Hearts in Atlantis is a 2001 American mystery drama film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin.It is loosely adapted from Stephen King's Dark Tower tie-in "Low Men in Yellow Coats," a novella in the 1999 collection Hearts in Atlantis after which the film was named.

  8. Nugent-Hopkins scores 2 power-play goals and Oilers beat ...

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    Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and the Edmonton Oilers went into Game 5 of the Western Conference Final determined to score if they got a power-play chance. There hadn’t been a power-play goal by either ...

  9. High-explosive anti-tank - Wikipedia

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    When combined with the wire-guided missile, infantry weapons were able to operate at long-ranges also. Anti-tank missiles altered the nature of tank warfare from the 1960s to the 1990s; due to the tremendous penetration of HEAT munitions, many post-WWII main battle tanks , such as the Leopard 1 and AMX-30 , were deliberately designed to carry ...