Emma Rault (X) (asker) Jun 29, 2015:

Being serenaded op de koop toe, what more could one ask for? :-) Thanks again for your help!

Barend van Zadelhoff Jun 29, 2015:

Emma, So happy to hear back from you,
So happy to hear back from you.
I hope you will find your linguistic way-ay-ay,
I hope you will find your linguisitic way-ay-ay.
I would like good luck to say-ay-ay,
I would like good luck to say-ay-ay.

Good luck! :-)

Emma Rault (X) (asker) Jun 29, 2015:

Hi, here I am again! Dank voor je input, Barend. Als je het zo bekijkt, is het inderdaad een stuk logischer. Maar ik heb er toch nog even een kanttekening bij gemaakt voor mijn klant, want met online research kan ik geen 100% zekerheid krijgen over hoe de vork nu precies in de steel zit (of de verdeelschakelaar in de wind turbine, as the case may be).

Barend van Zadelhoff Jun 25, 2015:

The Lady,
the Lady,
She keeps me at bay-ay-ay,
She keeps me at bay-ay-ay.
And now I have no more to say-ay-ay,
And now I have no more to say-ay-ay.
So sadly have to leave this place,
So sadly have to leave this place.

As well. :-)

Michael Beijer Jun 25, 2015:

she must be quite the specialist at offshore wind turbines, substations, etc. by now.
not really my thing, so it's all guesswork to me (personally)
fun to puzzle over if you have time, but I'm doing my taxes at the moment, so this speurtocht will sadly have to end here for me

Barend van Zadelhoff Jun 25, 2015:

By the way, this question made me immediately think of previous questions asked by Lady Emma on this subject.

What about this substation, Sir Michael?

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch_to_english/energy_power_gene...

Barend van Zadelhoff Jun 25, 2015:

Het gaat hier niet om raden.
Ik geef slechts aan hoe je het ook zou kunnen lezen.
Alles zou daardoor opeens op zijn plaats kunnen vallen.

Ik zeg 'zou kunnen'.

@Emma, zou je enige feedback kunnen geven?

Michael Beijer Jun 25, 2015:

I think we are all just guessing. Nothing wrong with guessing, it's part of our job description, but guessing nonetheless. Myself, I've never built a wind turbine out at sea, so I'm having a hard time visualising any of this. Props to Emma for trying though.

Barend van Zadelhoff Jun 25, 2015:

Als je nu zou denken dat die verdeelschakelaar zich buiten de windturbine bevindt...

Vanaf dat punt loopt de kabel de turbine in.
In de turbine wordt de kabel ook ergens op aangesloten - met eindsluitingen.

Op het moment dat je die aansluiting tot stand brengt, in de turbine, wordt ook de aansluiting met de verdeelschakelaar buiten de windturbine tot stand gebracht.
Pas dan kan er iets (elektrische energie) naar land worden overgebracht.

Zo kun je het ook zien.
Werkt dat?

Emma Rault (X) (asker) Jun 24, 2015:

The electricity cable goes up into the wind turbine in a J-tube (cable riser), the other end of which culminates in a curve (the curved part of the J shape) on the seabed. It is this cable which is then connected to the "verdeelschakelaar".

What confuses me is that this connection happens *inside* the wind turbine. Like, if it were one distribution switchboard it was being connected to, wouldn't that happen externally? And if it's inside the wind turbine, what is the single distribution switch doing by itself?

Michael Beijer Jun 24, 2015:

I suppose they might also mean the whole verdeelschakelbord/distribution switchboard itself. hard to say without more context

Textpertise Jun 24, 2015:

distribution switch Verdeelschakelaar is usually a distribution switch and is on a verdeelschakelbord or a distribution switchboard. Unless there is something in your context which indicates otherwise, this would be the obvious meaning.