Glossary
Transportation Equipment Electrician Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential transportation equipment electrician terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key transportation equipment electrician vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in transportation equipment electrician training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Battery bank
- Group of batteries.
- Continuity
- Complete circuit.
- Control circuit
- Low-voltage control system.
- Diagnostic code
- Fault code.
- Ground fault
- Unintended path to ground.
- Harness
- Bundle of wires.
- HVAC
- Heating and cooling system.
- Insulation resistance
- Measure of insulation health.
- Interlock
- Safety switch.
- Inverter
- Converts DC to AC.
- Pantograph
- Overhead power collector.
- Relay
- Electrical switch.
- Schematic
- Wiring diagram.
- Third rail
- Power rail for trains.
- Traction motor
- Motor that moves a train.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Transportation Equipment Electrician practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Transportation Equipment Electrician training.
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