Meanings
plural magslips · alternative mag-slip · alternative mag slip
- AustraliaCanadaNew ZealandUKAny of a variety of devices that rely on magnetic slip rings to drive a transmitter and receiver that rotate in unison.
With a single magslip as the transmitter and another as the receiver, the error of alignment is of the order of 1°.
2017, A. M. P. Brookes, P. Hammond, Basic Instrumentation for Engineers and Physicists, →ISBN2 more examples
Provision should be made as in GL 1 for entry of electrical supplies and for connection of telephone and magslip cables.
1981, W E K Middleton, Radar Development in Canada, →ISBN, page 130There are two gyroscopes. One is a vertical keeping gyroscope whose signal goes through two selective transmitter magslips to a follow through magslip which is similarly operated by a rolling velocity gyroscope. The combined selected signal is transmitted to the hunter magslip of the oil motor and pump. The mechanical movement of a gyroscope alters the rotor position of the transmitter magslip and the current flow moves the rotor of the hunter magslip to a corresponding positon (just as transmitter and receiver telemotors).
2013, Paul Anthony Russell, Leslie Jackson, Thomas D. Morton, Reeds Vol 8 General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers, →ISBN
Origin
From "magnetic slip ring", because these replace electrical slip-rings that rely on direct contact.
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