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antakten

English translation: trigger

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German term or phrase:antakten
English translation:trigger
Entered by: Ilka Nahmmacher

18:00 Aug 17, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks
German term or phrase: antakten
Dieser Text stammt aus einer Motorradanleitung.

Funktion Zündung Zylinder 1
Funktionsbeschreibung

Nach dem Start des Stellgliedtests taktet das EFI‑Steuergerät einen Thyristor, der sich im Steuergerät befindet, an. Somit kann der Kondensator schlagartig entladen werden. Durch eine akustische Rückmeldung oder der Einsatz einer Prüfkerze wird die Funktion der Zündung getestet.
Ilka Nahmmacher
Germany
Local time: 04:18
to trigger
Explanation:
Google for:
"fuel injection control device" + "trigger the thyristor"
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casper (X)
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Thanks for your help. I decided to do a quick Google hit check and found trigger wins out, without actually delving deeper into this issue myself. Thanks for the discussion and your efforts, Johannes Gleim.
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3 +4to trigger
casper (X)
4 -1activate
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Summary of reference entries provided
EFI
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Discussion entries: 8





  

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to trigger


Explanation:
Google for:
"fuel injection control device" + "trigger the thyristor"

casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 59
Grading comment
Thanks for your help. I decided to do a quick Google hit check and found trigger wins out, without actually delving deeper into this issue myself. Thanks for the discussion and your efforts, Johannes Gleim.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Stephen: See also:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyristor where they speak of 'gate trigger voltage' and 'gate trigger current'
2 hrs
agree  Bernd Runge: Eigentlich geht es um ansteuern, womit trigger meine Zustimmung findet. Manchmal wird sogar von "driving a thyristor" gesprochen.
2 hrs
agree  Lancashireman: The comment below ("triggering implies regular repetitions") may be discounted.
3 hrs
agree  Rolf Keiser
13 hrs
agree  Kim Metzger: Trigger – to initiate. To trigger the capacitor's discharge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_discharge_ignition
2 days 21 hrs
disagree  Johannes Gleim: Please do not trigger. This term is used in electronics for clocking an device like processors, and not to discharge capacitors. Triggering thyristors is also used for inverters, where direct current is converted into alternating current.
3 days 19 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
activate


Explanation:
I prefer activate to trigger as triggering implies regular repetitions instead of discharging a capacitor at once.

Electronic Fuel Injection
for complete description see http://www.autoshop101.com/forms/h20.pdf
(impossible to copy partly)

It explains that EFI consist of three functions, Fuel Delivery System, Air Induction System, and Electronic Control System (ECU).

No sparking system is provided basically, but can be added as done by Toyota.

Other synomyms are "tripping", releasing" and "exciting".


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Note added at 3 days19 hrs (2010-08-21 13:54:18 GMT)
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Why not choose "trigger(ing)"?

The IEC definition is

EN internal triggering
triggering obtained when the signal which controls the time base is supplied by an internal circuit acted upon by the observed quantity
DE interne Triggerung
http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&iev...
(My comment: this implies reptitions and the German equivalent is "Triggern" instead of "antakten")

But what is "antakten"? The core word is "Takt"

DE Takt
EN clock
equipment that provides a cyclic timing signal
NOTE – Where replicated sources are used for reliability reasons, the assembly of these is regarded as a single clock.
http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&iev...

How is it used?

For starting the clock pulses of a power converter having three or more phases (SR) with phase-sequenced quenching,
:
1. Verfahren zum Antakten eines drei- oder mehrphasigen Stromrichters in Br·ucken- oder Mittelpunktschaltung mit Phasenfolgel·oschung,
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0031118.html

(My comment: still regular repetitions, but the asker's context speaks of decharging the capacitor at once, what normally is non-recurring, That's why I does not support either "to trigger" or "to clock". Instead of that, an "activation" is not linked to repetitons.)


Johannes Gleim
Local time: 04:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 224

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Lancashireman: Based on a false premise: "...as triggering implies regular repetitions..."
3 days 2 hrs
  -> /discharging/ a capacitor is normally an non-recurring incidence. Therefore "to trigger" should be avoided. You may trust in an electrical engineer like me.
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: EFI

Reference information:
Electronic Fuel Injection (elektronisch gesteuerte Benzineinspritzung, ein für Ottomotoren gültiger, englischer Begriff aus der Fahrzeugtechnik
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI

Johannes Gleim
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Native speaker of: German
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