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by MarkIV on Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:11 pm
Ive noticed people marking things as EM EF NEMA. What do these stand for?
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Re: Abbreviations
by mcha9797 on Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:29 pm
EM or E/M is short for Electro Mechanical
NEMA is short for National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
Not sure on EF??
NEMA is short for National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
Not sure on EF??
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Re: Abbreviations
by TacomaJoe on Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:36 am
EF is Eagle. Their early mechanical controllers were EA, EM and EF. The EF20 was the workhorse and was upgraded to EF70 to handle the load of the additional signal heads.
In the traffic signal industry there are a bunch of abreviations. It's even more so on this forum because we extend them from the current, all the way back to the begining.
In the traffic signal industry there are a bunch of abreviations. It's even more so on this forum because we extend them from the current, all the way back to the begining.
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Re: Abbreviations
by EPAC-EPIC-MARC on Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:13 am
I wonder what EF stood for....if I was to go out on a limb it was for "Eagle Fixed (time)" 
EPAC : Eagle Programmable Actuated Controller
EPIC : Eagle Programmable Interval Controller
MARC : Master Area Response Controller
SCOOT : Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique
There's a few off the top of my head
EPAC : Eagle Programmable Actuated Controller
EPIC : Eagle Programmable Interval Controller
MARC : Master Area Response Controller
SCOOT : Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique
There's a few off the top of my head
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Re: Abbreviations
by MarkIV on Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:34 am
EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:I wonder what EF stood for....if I was to go out on a limb it was for "Eagle Fixed (time)"
EPAC : Eagle Programmable Actuated Controller
EPIC : Eagle Programmable Interval Controller
MARC : Master Area Response Controller
SCOOT : Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique
There's a few off the top of my head
Oh so thats were your user name comes from
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Re: Abbreviations
by EagleSignalFan on Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:11 pm
EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:SCOOT : Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique
So that's what SCOOT stands for! For the life of me I could never figure that one out!
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Re: Abbreviations
by BigTbird1974 on Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:05 pm
EagleSignalFan wrote:So that's what SCOOT stands for! For the life of me I could never figure that one out!
OK. Well, I guess it's nice we cleared that up...
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Re: Abbreviations
by LarryC39 on Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:23 pm
There's also MF but that's only used when programming a NEMA controller.
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Re: Abbreviations
by gwlreno on Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:39 pm
LarryC39 wrote:There's also MF but that's only used when programming a NEMA controller.
I'm sure that must stand for "Mighty Fine", right Larry?
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Re: Abbreviations
by mcha9797 on Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:24 am
LarryC39 wrote:There's also MF but that's only used when programming a NEMA controller.
I would think that It also helps to RTFM when programming a NEMA controller.
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