Simplified Technical English (PLEASE!!!)

[MeGustaXL]

Hi there,

Item: Oil Pressure Sensor.
Purpose: "To annunciate Oil Overpressure Warning if oil pressure exceeds 3900kPa".

Can that be said more simply?



Chris

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[Welshbird]

To sense oil pressure above 3900kPa?

I'm guessing something else actually does the notification.

Fee

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[MeGustaXL]

Aha! Yes, you're spot on there! Brilliant!

The function of the Oil Pressure Sensor is to sense (or measure) the oil pressure - hence its name

But you've hit the nail on the head - it's the sensing circuit that initiates/annunciates/provides/gives the actual warning.

OK, so what's the simplest way to say that the Sensing Circuit annunciates the OOW?



Chris

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[2ffat]

To activate the Oil Pressure Warning if the oil pressure exceeds 2900kPa.

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[CajunCenturion]

==> Can that be said more simply?
No, not really. You can change the wording but you're not really simplifying the message. Another option might be "To trigger the oil pressure warning when oil pressure exceeds 3900kPa."



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[CajunCenturion]

Also, I wouldn't capitalize "Oil Pressure Warning", and I would change 'if' to 'when'.

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[flapeyre]

Annunciate"? WTH? How about "sound"?

Back when the Jazz were still in New Orleans, they were playing the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. The game clock went blank, and the PA announcer declared:

Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a malfunction with the timing apparatus.

To which our radio play-by-play man declared:

Why doesn't he just say, "The clock's broke"?

Eschew obfuscation!!


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[flyboytim]

Gives a warning when pressure is greater than...

Implied:

Warns when pressure is becoming too high for safe continued use.

Could be a light on the dash...

The sensor is an intermediary between the apparatus under pressure and the method of warning that is picked up by operator's own sensory apparatus.

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[1DMF]

"Annunciate"? WTH? How about "sound"?

As it doesn't actually 'sound' both are incorrect.

It's a sender unit, creates a circuit (or reduces resistance) in an electrical current under certain conditions.

Your petrol tank sensor (sender) unit doesn't warn you your running on empty, that's what the thing attached to the end of the sender unit does, the light on the dash board for example.

as per flyboytim.

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[gbaughma]

Oil Pressure Sensor: Tells you something is wrong.



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[SantaMufasa]

To annunciate Oil Overpressure Warning if oil pressure exceeds 3900kPa.

In plain English, doesn't this mean:

Warns when oil pressures exceeds the atmospheric pressure of 3.9 million 17th-century French Mathematicians.

<grin>

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[flyboytim]

...pressure of 3.9 million 17th-century French Mathematicians.

To put that into perspective, that's 3.9 million English Physicists of a similar era per square metre, wigs, gaiters, apples and all!

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