asservimento sulla macchina del timone

English translation: servomechanism on the steering engine

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Italian term or phrase:asservimento sulla macchina del timone
English translation:servomechanism on the steering engine
Entered by: James (Jim) Davis

09:45 Jan 19, 2011
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Italian term or phrase: asservimento sulla macchina del timone
From a letter talking about problems with a ship:

"... era incattivato un braccetto meccanico dell'asservimento sulla macchina del timone."

I have looked up individual terms but not sure if what i have written makes sense when I put them together:

"a mechanical arm of the interlocking on the steering gear had gone wrong"

does this make sense? "mechanical arm OF the INTERLOCKING ON the steering gear"??

Thanks!
Imogen Hancock
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:32
servomechanism on the steering engine
Explanation:
Asservimento here refers to the servomechanism on the power steering or "steering engine" of a ship.

http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q="asservimento" servo&btn...

Steam steering engines had the characteristics of a modern servomechanism: an input, an output, an error signal, and a means for amplifying the error signal used for negative feedback to drive the error towards zero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomechanism#History
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James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 03:32
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4servomechanism on the steering engine
James (Jim) Davis
3Rudder mechanism linkage
Cedric Randolph


  

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Rudder mechanism linkage


Explanation:
No the English version you have proposed does not make much sense:
My version,
"A mechanical arm on the rudder mechanism linkage jammed" or broke or froze or malfunctioned - incattivare - means "gone bad"

Cedric Randolph
Italy
Local time: 00:32
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servomechanism on the steering engine


Explanation:
Asservimento here refers to the servomechanism on the power steering or "steering engine" of a ship.

http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q="asservimento" servo&btn...

Steam steering engines had the characteristics of a modern servomechanism: an input, an output, an error signal, and a means for amplifying the error signal used for negative feedback to drive the error towards zero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomechanism#History

James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Local time: 03:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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