Re: WIRE ... Part 3

From: OM (om_at_our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:02:34 -0500

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:19:07 GMT, fairwater@gmail.com (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

>A 'battleshort' is to lock a circuitbreaker closed, or to override a
>safety interlock to keep equipment functioning. I can't speak to
>elsewhere, but the in the Navy they were designed to keep vital
>equipment operating during battle.

...Or, in other words, the civillian equivalent of a battleshort is
inserting a penny in an old-style screw-in fuse box to keep the power
going after your last fuse has blown.

                                OM 

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