CRAP Panel?

Where I come from this would mean it wasn't very good, or maybe faulty. Crap is used as a derogatory term. It's hard to imagine that it would be a serious acronym of any sort.

Crap has the same meaning in the US.

I suspect that the panel is described that way because it has never worked properly. Poor design or poor fabrication

Etymology time: the word derives from the name of one Thomas Crapper, who popularised the use of the water-flush toilet. It is difficult to imagine needing a control panel to do this; usually a siphonic flush cistern is all that is required with the arrangements being provided by an ingenious mechanism.

sorry guys.. the entire forum is getting mis-leaded. This is some thing related to som annunciation / alarm panel ....

Oh. Thanks for the information. It might help.

Well, either it was named by someone with a sense of humour or it was not intended for release in English-speaking countries. Unfortunately, typing CRAP into Google is unlikely to produce worthwhile results. Good luck.

I've use the term crap panel to reference the brain drive or limiting panel of circuit boards, the ones that always recirulate their limit set.

So there's no truth in the rumour that CRAP comes out of Google, then?

"sorry guys.. the entire forum is getting mis-leaded. This is some thing related to som annunciation / alarm panel ...."

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Ask the man that has one errr Makes Them

If they don't know, it will have to be someone familiar with them.

Perhaps: (C)onsistent (R)esponse (A)larm (P)anel.

Or, conforming to the prevalent attitude: (C)rappy (R)esponse (A)larm (P)anel.

"This is some thing related to som annunciation / alarm panel ...."

Thats good to know Because the only acronym for C.R.A.P. I know of was Cut Rate Auto Parts and that is not what you need.

Reminds me of a project I worked on in China in about 1980 where we were building an MDF plant near a small village. Reliable supply of components was next to impossible and returning something defective took days worth of paperwork through translators. But we kept getting defective components in from suppliers, so I began a policy of 100% incoming part testing. When I came across a bad part, I tossed it in the pile with broken junk but I put a string tag on it that said N.F.G. so that I could find and return it later when I had time for the hassle, (which ended up being almost never). After a while the pile grew rather large and technicians over there were not accustomed to such apparent waste, so they began rummaging through the pile. A group of them approached me one day with an ammeter with the N.F.G. tag on it and their spokesman said they saw a lot of parts with this tag and asked me what it meant. I told them the exact words; they left, satisfied (or so I thought). They came back the next day, all of them in a bunch, and the spokesman came up and said, in his broken English, "I know meaning of No and Good, but what is F...ing meaning? I no can find in translation dictionary".

When I stopped laughing, I did that motion of making a ring of my thumb and forefinger on one hand, then repeatedly thrusting the forefinger of my other hand through it. They all burst out laughing and said that in Chinese, the concept translated almost exactly the same, they just didn't know the words in English!

What a funny story. So many things get lost in the translation. I remember not too long ago when assembling some product, made in an Asian country, in which the manual would refer to "honorable ancestors" or sometimes hilariously confusing instructions such as "Please to look at your behind where 5.6 v. post connect to yellow wire front".

Thanks again for the laugh. Remember, "not to anger when electrical failure not manufacture with".

I suspect what you are looking at is a fire alarm system's control & evacuation annunication panel (CEAP) sometimes also called a master emergency control panel (MECP) which is used to evacuate and make announcements in a fire alarm situation. Perhaps there is a typo. If it is not this type of alarm panel it may be a critical response panel (CRP), sometimes also called a critical response alarm panel but the accronim stinks so this terminology is not commonly used. Such a panel could control almost anything from heart monitors to a chemical process in a factory or even a fire alarm system?

With little hope, I tried acronymfinder.com. Among the crappy accronyms, this stood out:

Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity

Then searching in Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22contrast%2C+repetition%2C+alignment+and+proximity%22

It's a design philosophy.

Normally in LT Projects tenders, the relay and control panels are abbreviated as "RACP".May be CRAP a typo error.Please check under what context CRAP is indicated in your Project Tender.

I have a good exposure , may be i can help you.