load bank

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load bank (plural load banks)

  1. (electrical engineering) A piece of electrical test equipment used to simulate an electrical load, to test an electric power source without connecting it to its normal operating load.
    • 2020 July 1, Pip Dunn, “Department store”, in Rail, page 92:
      Electric locomotives [...] Class 84: 84009 was taken on by the Derby RTC as a load bank locomotive in August 1978, [...]. It lasted in this role until December 1992 and was scrapped exactly three years later.

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