Hydraulic Machines MCQ

What is an indication of the internal clearance of a hydraulic pump?

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Correct Answer: DIRT TOLERANCE

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What does the term mean when referring to the capacity of a filter?

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Correct Answer: Dirt

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What term refers to the weight of particles a strainer or filter will hold at the limit of its operation?

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Correct Answer: DIRT CAPACITY

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Where does the main function of a directional valve stop flow?

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Correct Answer: Through particular channels

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The main function of a directional valve is to prevent or direct what?

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Correct Answer: Flow

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What does the term direct current imply?

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Correct Answer: A steady level of electrical current

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What is the absolute difference between the inlet pressure and outlet pressure?

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Correct Answer: Differential pressure

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Paraffin wax is removed from which oils to improve their properties?

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Correct Answer: Lubricating oils

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Paraffin wax removal is known as what?

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Correct Answer: DE-WAXING

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What does DE-VENT mean?

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Correct Answer: To close the vent connection

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When closing a vent on a pressure control valve, it is called what?

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Correct Answer: DE-VENT

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What release process is used to unlock the detent?

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Correct Answer: A mechanical, hydraulic or electrical device

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What device maintains the spool of a hydraulic directional control valve in position?

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Correct Answer: Detent

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What is the term for the ability of an oil to separate from water?

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Correct Answer: EmULSIBILITY

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How does a hydraulic fluid resist mixing with water?

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Correct Answer: Emulsification

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What does the term "gpm" mean?

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Correct Answer: Gallons per minute

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What change in pressure causes an even release of energy in a system?

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Correct Answer: DECOMPRESSION

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Where does the change from elevated to lower pressure take place?

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Correct Answer: In a hydraulic system

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What is the removal of ragged edges from the inside diameter of a fitting or hose end called?

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Correct Answer: DEBURR

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What does the dead-weight accumulator increase and relieve pressure through the use of?

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Correct Answer: A weighted vertical piston

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What is a DEAD TIME?

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Correct Answer: A real, definite delay between two related actions

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In what units do we commonly express pump pressure?

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Correct Answer: PSI

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A single-acting cylinder has a single end that is what?

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Correct Answer: Closed

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When the shaft is retracted into the chamber, all the pistons or collars reach their closed end limits, what is applied to the shaft?

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Correct Answer: External weight

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When fluid flow is applied to a port in the closed end, what does the telescoping shaft extend until?

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Correct Answer: All collars or pistons

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What is the name of the hydraulic cylinder with a movable shaft at one end and a closed end at the other end?

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Correct Answer: Cylinder, Telescopic

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What type of cylinders is a TANDEM?

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Correct Answer: Two or more hydraulic cylinders

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What do the letters TANDEM mean?

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Correct Answer: Two or more hydraulic cylinders with interconnected piston assemblies

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A hydraulic cylinder that can only apply force to the moveable element in one direction is called what?

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Correct Answer: SINGLE-ACTING

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What can apply force to the moveable element only in one direction?

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Correct Answer: A hydraulic cylinder

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What is the name of the cylinder design that allows more than one cylinder to be used in a series?

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Correct Answer: REPHASING

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The CYLINDER; REPHASING design permits the use of two or more what?

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Correct Answer: Hydrulic cylinders

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What is the term used to describe a hydraulic cylinder in which the relative rotation of the cylinder housing and the piston and piston rod, plunger, or ram, is fixed?

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Correct Answer: CYLINDER, NON-ROTATING

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What is a non-rotating cylinder?

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Correct Answer: Hydraulic cylinder

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Where can a cylinder apply motion and force?

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Correct Answer: Either direction

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What type of cylinder is a double acting cylinder?

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Correct Answer: A hydraulic cylinder

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WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE DEVICE WHICH HOLDS THE CYLINDER CAPACITY FOR RETRACTION?

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Correct Answer: Hydraulic cylinder

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How many times can the cylinder be extended?

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Correct Answer: One full extension

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How many full extensions of the cylinder does the capacity of the cylinder capacity require?

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Correct Answer: Volume required for one full extension

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What is a cylinder cap?

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Correct Answer: A hydraulic cylinder end closure

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What mechanical device covers the entire bore area?

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Correct Answer: CYLINDER CAP

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What is an example of an adjustable stroke cylinder?

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Correct Answer: CYLINDER, ADJUSTABLE STROKE

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What are the stops at the end of the cylinder used to limit?

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Correct Answer: Piston travel

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What does the term "cylinder" mean in hydraulic engineering?

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Correct Answer: A hydraulic actuator constructed of a plunger or piston

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What does a cylinder convert fluid power into?

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Correct Answer: Linear mechanical force and motion

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What does "cycle-motion" refer to?

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Correct Answer: Movement from normal to extreme position and return

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What is it called to return from extreme position?

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Correct Answer: CYCLE-MOTION

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What do conductors do?

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Correct Answer: Transfer to electrical potential

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What are the conditions that a specimen is exposed to before testing?

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Correct Answer: Temperature, humidity

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What is the exposure of a device or specimen under specified conditions called?

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Correct Answer: CONDITIONING

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When pressure is reduced in a system, it is called what?

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Correct Answer: DECOMPRESSION

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What is the process of changing pressure from low to high called?

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Correct Answer: COMPRESSION

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What does the acronym CHS stand for?

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Correct Answer: Compressibility

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What kind of change in pressure is needed to change a unit of volume of a hydraulic fluid?

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Correct Answer: Unit change

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A "dead load" is what type of thing that needs to be balanced by a counterbalance valve?

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Correct Answer: Machine

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What is the valve used to balance the weight of a machine?

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Correct Answer: A counterbalance valve

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When does the application of CORROSION RESISTANCE occur?

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Correct Answer: Within the hydraulic components of a hydraulic system

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What is the term used to describe the ability of hydraulic fluids to resist corrosion?

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Correct Answer: CORROSION RESISTANCE

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What can CORROSION INHIBITOR prevent?

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Correct Answer: Chemical attack by water or other contaminants

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What does corrosion involve?

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Correct Answer: Degrades

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What is the process by which material degrades by chemical or electrochemical means?

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Correct Answer: Corrosion

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What is the function of a cooler?

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Correct Answer: To transfer heat

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What type of device does a Cooler function as?

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Correct Answer: Mechanical

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What can happen to a hose that is being flexed regularly?

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Correct Answer: CONTROLLED FLEXING

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What can valves also control?

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Correct Answer: Many pistons working with each other

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What are the three basic types of hydraulic control valves?

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Correct Answer: Tandem centre, open centre (motoring spool), and closed centre

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What are contaminants made up of?

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Correct Answer: Solid particles, liquids or gases

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What is the term for unwanted material that adversely affects the fluid power system or hydraulic components?

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Correct Answer: Contaminant

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What is a connector used for?

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Correct Answer: To attach two pieces of tubing together or to attach a piece of tubing to a connector

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What is the name of the device that is used to attach two pieces of tubing together?

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Correct Answer: Connector

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What is the name of the ability to connect coupling halves with internal pressure applied to either or both coupling halves?

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Correct Answer: CONNECT UNDER PRESSURE

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What are the hydraulic components called?

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Correct Answer: CONDUCTOR

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What are the parts of a hydraulic system that are called "conductor"?

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Correct Answer: The hydraulic components such as pipes, tubes, and hoses

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What is the ability to transfer to electrical potential?

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Correct Answer: CONDUCTIVE

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What are the specified conditions for conditioning?

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Correct Answer: Temperature, humidity

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What is a term used to describe the change in pressure in a hydraulic system from low pressure to elevated pressure?

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Correct Answer: COMPRESSION

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What does the word "compression" mean?

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Correct Answer: Change in volume of a unit of volume

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What is the change in volume of a unit of volume of a hydraulic fluid when subjected to a unit change of pressure?

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Correct Answer: COMPRESSIBILITY

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What does the gauge indicate at `zero psi'?

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Correct Answer: Level of pressure

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What type of gauge shows pressure at `zero’ psi?

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Correct Answer: COMPOUND GAUGE

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What is a component that can be used to make a single unit?

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Correct Answer: Hydraulic or electrical

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What is a single unit of hydraulic or electrical?

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Correct Answer: COMPONENT

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What are the two parts of a hydraulic coupling called?

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Correct Answer: Quick-action coupling halves

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What type of control alters displacement in response to pressure changes in the system?

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Correct Answer: COMPENSATOR

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What is it called when a variable pump or motor alters its displacement in response to pressure changes?

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Correct Answer: COMPENSATOR CONTROL

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What is an example of a COMMAND SIGNAL?

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Correct Answer: An external signal to which the servo must respond

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What type of signal is a COMMAND SIGNAL?

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Correct Answer: An external signal

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What must a servo respond to?

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Correct Answer: COMMAND SIGNAL

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Combustible liquid has what temperature?

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Correct Answer: +100 degrees F

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What kind of liquid has a flash point above 37.8 degrees C?

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Correct Answer: COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID

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How is a COLLAR typically compressed?

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Correct Answer: By swaging or crimping

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What is another term for collar?

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Correct Answer: Ferrule

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What does the term relative measure?

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Correct Answer: Surface lubricity

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What is a relative measure of the surface lubricity?

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Correct Answer: COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION

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A closed loop is a type of control that has what as its input?

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Correct Answer: An input signal

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What type of control has an input signal and a feedback of the result of the input signal?

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Correct Answer: Closed Loop

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When a piping arrangement is called a Closed Circuit, the pump output passes through what other components other than the pump?

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Correct Answer: Other hydraulic components

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What does the accumulator do?

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Correct Answer: Store the hydraulic oil under pressure

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Where is an accumulator used to store hydraulic oil under pressure?

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Correct Answer: Closed Centre Valves

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What does the pump operate against in a closed center circuit system?

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Correct Answer: A load

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What does a FLUTE mount with a common pin hole at?

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Correct Answer: Right angle or normal to the axis of symmetry

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What is the abbreviation for a "U" shaped mounting device?

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Correct Answer: CLEVIS

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What is the fourth position for a circuit, regen varic?

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Correct Answer: Incorporated into directional control valve

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What kind of unit controls a component?

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Correct Answer: Pilot

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What is used to control a main circuit or component?

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Correct Answer: CIRCUIT, PILOT

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What type of circuit is the return fluid being directed to?

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Correct Answer: Hydraulic

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What is the term for the circuit in which return fluid is directed to the reservoir?

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Correct Answer: CIRCUIT, OPEN

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What are circuits made up of?

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Correct Answer: Components, devices and passages

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What is the working set of logic for a particular application called?

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Correct Answer: Circuit

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What does a backflow prevent?

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Correct Answer: Flow in the opposite direction

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