power-failure mode
111Hot cathode — is also a name for a hot filament ionization gauge, a vacuum measuring device.In vacuum tubes, a hot cathode is a cathode electrode which emits electrons due to thermionic emission. ( Cf. cold cathodes, where field emission is used and which do… …
112Steel dam — A steel dam is a type of dam (a structure to impound or retard the flow of water) that is made of steel, rather than the more common masonry, earthworks, concrete or timber construction materials.Relatively few examples were ever built. Of the… …
113Diving regulator — and Octopus Other names Demand valve Uses Reduces pressurized breathing gas to ambient pressure and delivers it to the diver Inventor Manuel Théodore Guillaumet (1838), Benoît Rouquayrol (1860) …
114Motor controller — A motor controller is a device or group of devices that serves to govern in some predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor.[1] A motor controller might include a manual or automatic means for starting and stopping the motor,… …
115Diode — Figure 1: Closeup of a diode, showing the square shaped semiconductor crystal (black object on left) …
116Snow Crash —   Cover of the U.S. paperback version …
117Click of death — A standard ZIP100 disk Click of death is a term that became common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals the disk drive has failed, often catastrophically.[1] Contents …
118Mazda RX-2 — Manufacturer Mazda Production 1970–1978 Class Midsize …
119Second breakdown — The second breakdown is an irreversible failure mode in power semiconductors.The safe operating area (SOA) of a power transistor is a subset of the parameter combinations of collector emitter voltage and collector current, which the device can… …
120Derailment — For the use of the term in psychiatry, see derailment (thought disorder). Derailed Tatra T3 tram in Brno, Czech Republic …
