Re: Backpan or backplane?

["Elisa R. Sawyer" <elisawyer -at- gmail -dot- com>]

When I re-read your initial post, I realized that your engineer was saying
that "backspin" was correct, not "backplane". Sorry to have lost that fact
in reading other responses. I will always go with what engineers say until
I understand the domain and context.

-Elisa



On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> Thanks for playing, but no.
>
> The term, backpan, is correct, and in this context has nothing to do with
> PERL nor general building construction. It's a sort of larger framework to
> which smaller subcomponents/subassemblies can be mounted.
>
> > Chris
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Elisa R. Sawyer <elisawyer -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm with the other responses in believing that "backplane" is correct in
>> the context of your docs.
>>
>> I'm sending links as an FYI, "BackPAN" can refer to indices for CPAN,
>> which contains perl archives:
>>
>>    - http://www.cpan.org/
>>    - http://backpan.cpantesters.org/
>>    - http://neilb.org/2014/05/23/backpan-index.html
>>
>> Basically, BackPAN would only be relevant in very specific cases.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Backpan" is a term often used in HVAC sheetmetal design to describe a
>>> rear-accessible drain tray.  It's unlikely to be the correct term for this
>>> application, since having moisture in an electronics enclosure that needs
>>> to be drained would be a /really bad thing/.
>>>
>>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/22/2015 1:24 PM, Chris Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>> This might be, Rick, but I cannot find a definition for "backpan"
>>>> anywhere.
>>>>
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