Talk:Static inverter plant

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Plant or station? --Abdull 09:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

This is a funny bit of "engineering speak". It's common for engineers in certain disciplines to refer to a (hmmm...) "a collection of related equipment" as a "plant". So, for example, telecom engineers refer to the big rectifier in a telephone switching office that converts mains power to 48 vdc as "the rectifier plant". In The Hunt for Red October, you'll hear the sub's command crew and engineer refer to the nuclear reactor subsystem as "the reactor plant".

I think this is the same sort of thing.

Atlant 11:42, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

A radio or TV station would not be called a radio plant anywhere on Earth. I think British speaking persons favor station while Americans favor plant in many applications. To me station implies monitoring, control, possibly modification, while plant infers manufacturing from raw materials such as wind, sun, coal or oil. Refering to the electrical utility as the mains is also British Ccpoodle 11:24, 4 July 2007 (UTC)