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LNPE

Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

3L + PE

English translation:

3L + PE (3 live + protective earth)

Added to glossary by Anton Konashenok
Oct 16, 2010 13:13
13 yrs ago
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French term

3L + PE

French to English Tech/Engineering Electronics / Elect Eng electrical specs
What does this stand for? It's on the electrical specifications for a piece of milling equipment manufactured in Switzerland. The abbreviations may be international, as I found them in a bi-lingual EN-DE document, but I'm not sure. I think they refer to power cables.
Here's the whole thing:
400V 50 Hz
 3LNPE  3L+PE
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 3 live + protective earthing
Change log

Nov 6, 2010 23:37: Anton Konashenok Created KOG entry

Discussion

meirs Oct 16, 2010:
No translation required see LNPE

Proposed translations

+2
5 mins
Selected

3 live + protective earthing

a type of 3-phase wiring

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Note added at 9 mins (2010-10-16 13:23:03 GMT)
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earthing is UK English, in the U.S. it's grounding, of course.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M : But earth / ground (rather than -ing). / What do we call the 3 wires in our mains plugs? Live / Neutral / Earth
5 hrs
Thanks. You are right, your variant is better.
agree chris collister : Earth/ing: earth rod vs earthing rod - splitting hairs?
22 hrs
Thank you, Chris
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks again Anton!"
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