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wdaniels
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What are "Pules"?

05/11/2011 6:55 PM

This is my first post and I am definitely not an electrical engineer, nor an engineer or even an electrician. I tried doing a search here on the site and on Google but got no real information.

So I am trying to calibrate a gauge on my boat and the instruction manual says that if my ratio is 2:1 to use 2 pules. Now I looked up Pules and found out it is a frequency range. I would have thought that they ment to say pulses but I think not. But which frequency range? How high or low???????? I am stumped and figured an engineering site is better than Google. Any and all information is greatly appreciated.

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05/11/2011 7:07 PM

Can you give us the name of the instrument? Or a look at the page?

Is it a tachometer?

Give us some details.
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05/11/2011 8:07 PM

The only meaning of the word 'pules' in English relates to crying, whimpering etc.

I hope you didn't use the 'definition' given here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_pules - it is nonsense.

I believe your manual contains an example of a combination of a poor translation and a typographical error.

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05/11/2011 8:34 PM

Could it be joules?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule

http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee/keep/Mod1/Whatis/energymeasures.htm

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Re: What are "Pules"?

05/11/2011 8:42 PM

Could be joules, boules, tools or fools, or maybe plus, poles, pulse, piles, pulls, pulses, pulsed, pales, pulps, pulers, pukes. (links courtesy Websters-online-dictionary.org).

Nothing much seems to fit.

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Re: What are "Pules"?

05/12/2011 5:40 AM

Reading my crystal ball as usual I can see it's a RPM meter and the translated from Chineese manual refers to poles of your alternator (?) which drives at 2:1 from your engine i.e. it has 4 poles * 3 phases. Hey It's getting cloudy. Move the cloud shaking a 10$ bill and then throw it in this bucket. S.M.
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05/12/2011 11:04 PM

With such a wonderful response, to your reply, I would suggest that you look down, between your knees, and cough it up- Be a "Man"- A real source may be there, and linked to a real name, or Nombre, on this site-You are valuable--Link up--thanks, Mac
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05/13/2011 3:35 AM

WD - YOU SAID "Now I looked up Pules and found out it is a frequency range."

When I looked up the word, from one of the links here, it said frequency RAGE (RAGE not RANGE) and went on to say nothing re: electronics / calibrations. Maybe you got the definition mixed up / confused.

I have been around electronics for decades and have never seen the word PULES applied to anything related to radio electronics or theory. Maybe they meant to say "use 2 PLUS" or "2 PULSES" or "2 PLUSES".

If I were you and calibration really means something to the performance of the instrument I WOULD CONTACT THE MANUFACTURER OF THE EQUIPMENT. Telephone, e-mail, or open a support ticket and refer to the model number of the equipment you have along with the page and paragraph of the use of the word PULES in their documentation when asking for an in depth explanation of how the calibration is performed.

Good luck, I know how frustrating simple mistakes can be and you are dealing with a mistake. They got the word spelled wrong or they failed to explain how to interpret PULES! My money is on a misspelling.
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05/13/2011 5:50 AM

What's the gauge for?

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05/13/2011 7:35 AM

Like you, I wonder what the gauge is for?

I have a narrowboat and the only gauge that relates to a 'ratio' is the electric rev counter that runs directly off the alternator. The gauge has to be calibrated to match the pulley ratio to show true engine rpm.

I have never heard of 'pules'

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05/13/2011 7:55 AM

PULLEY?

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Re: What are "Pules"?

05/13/2011 11:09 AM

How about "Pulleys"?
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05/13/2011 11:44 AM

Pules <<Latin for, "buy new gauge".
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05/13/2011 7:32 PM

Pules is not a meaningful word in this context. The "frequency rage" definition you found is completely wrong.

Tachs for outboards often count "pulses" from the alternator. The number of pulses depends upon how the alternator is made and how it is driven. The "how it is made" part relates to the number of poles it has: more poles, more pulses per alternator shaft rotation. Larger outboards have belt-driven alternators, so the alternator can be driven at (for example) twice engine speed. Such an alternator will put out twice as many pulses per second as an alternator driven at engine speed.

Tachs can also be triggered by ignition pulses, (so for a given number of cylinders, a 2-stroke will put out twice as many pulses as a 4-stroke) and, in more modern engines, by a pulse generator on the crankshaft.

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05/14/2011 1:43 AM

"Tachs for outboards often count "pulses" from the alternator."

There you likely have it figured out!

Are they asking the OP to add two PULSES to the calibration setting or use 2 pulses instead of another value, under specific circumstances, to bring the unit to proper calibration?
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Re: What are "Pules"?

05/13/2011 8:07 PM

probably a typo.

would it read better if it said 2 poles?

what about pulses?

what about pulls?
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