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la course utile électrique de mesure

English translation: the usable / useful electrical measurement travel

16:06 Feb 10, 2023
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space / rudder pedals
French term or phrase: la course utile électrique de mesure
Context:
Pour ce faire, la mémoire de l’unité de traitement 26 stocke par exemple des informations caractéristiques des capteurs d’acquisition 116, les informations caractéristiques comprenant au moins la course utile électrique de mesure de chaque capteur d’acquisition 116. Lors de la vérification, l’unité de traitement 26 compare chacun des signaux de mesure parallèles à la course utile électrique de mesure stockée.

A different PR task and this has been translated in several ways and struggling with word order.
Translates as
electrical measurement payload
electrical measurement stroke
electrical measurement useful travel

My thinking is "electrical measurement of the useful stroke".
I.e. the sensors are used to measure the stroke and convert to an electrical signal.
End of week confirmation would be appreciated.
TIA Chris.
Bashiqa
France
Local time: 12:41
English translation:the usable / useful electrical measurement travel
Explanation:
I think you have it in your exisiting translation — though you may need to play around slightly with the exact word order you use.
With anything like a pedal, lever, etc., the normal word you need is 'travel'; stroke only applies in much narrower range of contexts, often where a reciprocating movement is taking place.
The mechanical travel of e.g. a pedal, knob, etc. will be determined by mechanical stops etc. — but not all of the length of that travel will necessarily actually do anything (i.e. 'be useful') — for example, there might be over-travel or lost motion at the ends.
Equally, when that physical movement is translated by some means into an electrical signal for use by the rest of the system (e.g. a fader on a sound mixer, or a fuel gauge on a car), the electrical signal produced may only be "meaningful" over a certain part of the mechanical travel — typically, with say a slider potentiometer, there is a track with variable resistance along its length, but at either end, there may be a 'dead' area where the resistance no longer varies.
So this is where we get the electrically useful/usable idea.
It's less obvious why they bother to add 'measurement' — this appears to be a fundamental part of its function; but perhaps they are eager to emphasise that the varying electrical signal (possibly a resistance, or a voltage, say) is what the rest of the system is 'measuring' in order to achieve the desired purpose.
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Tony M
France
Local time: 12:41
Grading comment
Thank you.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4the usable / useful electrical measurement travel
Tony M
3 +1electrically measured effective travel
Johannes Gleim


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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
course utile électrique de mesure
electrically measured effective travel


Explanation:
Ist difficult to decide, whether 'course utile' corresponds to the CPU payload or the angle measured angle. I tend to select ' effective travel'

course utile de la commande (exprimée en millimètres) déterminée conformément aux prescriptions du point 9.4.1
effective travel of control (expressed in millimetres) fixed in accordance with the requirements of point 9.4.1
:
selon au moins une direction 0x, avec une course utile xc, le stator étant composé d'au moins deux ensembles ferromagnétiques
mobile along at least one direction ox, with an b>effective travel xc, the stator consisting of at least two ferromagnetic assemblies
https://context.reverso.net/übersetzung/franzosisch-englisch...

In computing and telecommunications, the payload is the part of transmitted data that is the actual intended message. Headers and metadata are sent only to enable payload delivery.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_(computing)

Influence of the transferred payload on the CPU utilization and throughput of the I/O-intensive microservice in a sending scenario. With an increasing payload the CPU utilization and the throughput decreases.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Influence-of-the-transfe...

Global efficiency can be factorized into infrastructure_efficiency *
payload_efficiency
payload -> Pilot infrastructure, interaction with batch systems, job matching, pilot draining ...
efficiency -> Calibration / code loading IOWait, final stageout, job length ...
https://indico.cern.ch/event/656544/contributions/2712028/at...

Lors de la vérification, l’unité de traitement 26 compare chacun des signaux de mesure parallèles à la course utile électrique de mesure stockée.
=>
During verification, the processing unit 26 compares each of the parallel measurement signals against the stored electrically measured effective travel.
or (only for CPU):
During verification, the processing unit 26 compares each of the parallel measurement signals against the stored electrical measurement payload.

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 12:41
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Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Looks promising, thank you.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jennifer Levey: I see nothing in the ST that refers to a 'CPU', or to an 'angle' - and less still any 'payload'. The ST describes a simple digital position-monitoring system, // (added:) quite possibly using nothing more complicated than a cheap PLC.
8 hrs
  -> Please read: la mémoire de l’unité de traitement 26 stocke par exemple des informations caractéristiques des capteurs d’acquisition 116. The text deals clearly with data processing unit and associated memory.
agree  Anastasia Kalantzi
4 days
  -> Thank you!
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
the usable / useful electrical measurement travel


Explanation:
I think you have it in your exisiting translation — though you may need to play around slightly with the exact word order you use.
With anything like a pedal, lever, etc., the normal word you need is 'travel'; stroke only applies in much narrower range of contexts, often where a reciprocating movement is taking place.
The mechanical travel of e.g. a pedal, knob, etc. will be determined by mechanical stops etc. — but not all of the length of that travel will necessarily actually do anything (i.e. 'be useful') — for example, there might be over-travel or lost motion at the ends.
Equally, when that physical movement is translated by some means into an electrical signal for use by the rest of the system (e.g. a fader on a sound mixer, or a fuel gauge on a car), the electrical signal produced may only be "meaningful" over a certain part of the mechanical travel — typically, with say a slider potentiometer, there is a track with variable resistance along its length, but at either end, there may be a 'dead' area where the resistance no longer varies.
So this is where we get the electrically useful/usable idea.
It's less obvious why they bother to add 'measurement' — this appears to be a fundamental part of its function; but perhaps they are eager to emphasise that the varying electrical signal (possibly a resistance, or a voltage, say) is what the rest of the system is 'measuring' in order to achieve the desired purpose.

Tony M
France
Local time: 12:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 116
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway
30 mins
  -> Thanks, W/A!
agree  Kim Metzger
1 hr
agree  Jennifer Levey: Regarding your last para., the 'measured' value will be compared to the travel limits stored in the memory 26, in order to establish the physical position within the range of travel.
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Jennifer! Oh yes, of course, there's the explanatioon.
agree  Ilian DAVIAUD
18 hrs
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