Re: Backpan or backplane?

Subject: Re: Backpan or backplane?
From: "Elisa R. Sawyer" <elisawyer -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:04:26 -0700

"backpan" auto-spellchscks to "backspin."

Not having a stellar day today.

:-)

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Elisa R. Sawyer <elisawyer -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> 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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Backpan or backplane?: From: Chris Morton
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Re: Backpan or backplane?: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Backpan or backplane?: From: Elisa R. Sawyer
Re: Backpan or backplane?: From: Chris Morton
Re: Backpan or backplane?: From: Elisa R. Sawyer

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