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fusión del rojo

English translation: (because) the red lamp has burned out

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Spanish term or phrase:fusión del rojo
English translation:(because) the red lamp has burned out
Entered by: Charles Davis

07:25 Nov 3, 2018
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Spanish term or phrase: fusión del rojo
Puede obtenerse información adicional sobre el fallo o avería mediante el SAM (por ejemplo, para averiguar si una señal está en avería por fusión del rojo o por avería del módulo de control y supervisión que controla dicho foco).
Maidul Islam
Local time: 05:40
(because) the red lamp has burned out
Explanation:
"El rojo" here means "el foco rojo", the red lamp (it refers to "dicho foco" at the end of the sentence); that is, the red signal lamp. "Fusión" literally means "melting", from the verb "fundirse", and it's applied to when a lamp stops working because the filament in the bulb has melted. We normally say that the bulb, or by extension the lamp itself, has "burned out"; in UK English, particularly, we quite often say that it has "blown".

So "una señal está en avería por fusión del rojo" means that a signal has failed or broken down because the red light has stopped working, due to the bulb burning out.

Here's a discussion of how to say that a light has stopped working in English:
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/3709/how-do-native-s...

This is from a Spanish government document on navigation aids:

"Por lo general en el mismo armario se incluyen los circuitos que detectan la fusión de la lámpara y ordenan el cambio a la de reserva" (p. 37)
http://www.apalmeria.com/images/stories/file/Empleo/TecnicoF...
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 02:10
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(because) the red lamp has burned out


Explanation:
"El rojo" here means "el foco rojo", the red lamp (it refers to "dicho foco" at the end of the sentence); that is, the red signal lamp. "Fusión" literally means "melting", from the verb "fundirse", and it's applied to when a lamp stops working because the filament in the bulb has melted. We normally say that the bulb, or by extension the lamp itself, has "burned out"; in UK English, particularly, we quite often say that it has "blown".

So "una señal está en avería por fusión del rojo" means that a signal has failed or broken down because the red light has stopped working, due to the bulb burning out.

Here's a discussion of how to say that a light has stopped working in English:
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/3709/how-do-native-s...

This is from a Spanish government document on navigation aids:

"Por lo general en el mismo armario se incluyen los circuitos que detectan la fusión de la lámpara y ordenan el cambio a la de reserva" (p. 37)
http://www.apalmeria.com/images/stories/file/Empleo/TecnicoF...

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 02:10
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 112
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil!
agree  bigedsenior: somewhat more common than 'blew out'
10 hrs
  -> Thanks :-) Yes, I would say so too. We do often say "the bulb has blown" (not blown out) in UK English, but I think this is not so commonly said in American English.
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