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Definition of Pilot lamp
1. Noun. Indicator consisting of a light to indicate whether power is on or a motor is in operation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilot Lamp
Literary usage of Pilot lamp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"The flashing of the answering pilot lamp will now commence, the circuit being
... The flash pilot lamp L4 will also respond, as well as the night alarm, ..."
2. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"In other words, the pilot lamp will light whenever the subscriber to whose line
the answering plug is connected hangs up his receiver. ..."
3. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"This permits the 15-ohm relay on the board to pull up, lighting the pilot lamp.
The tell-tale lamp current operates the 0.3-ohm alarm relay which causes the ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1903)
"This pilot lamp is thus common to the signals of a group of call signals, ...
It is by reason of this function that the term " pilot lamp " has colloquially ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"20 shows the arrangement of the field switch and pilot lamp used on the board in
Fig. 19. ... As the machine builds up, the pilot lamp becomes brighter, ..."
6. Science and Industry (1900)
"When the pilot lamp shows the field to be picking up, ... If there is a short
circuit in the pilot lamp, the dynamo cannot pick up its field well even with ..."
7. Naval Electricians' Text Book by William Hannum Grubb Bullard (1911)
"Turn feed knob on lamp until electrodes make contact and pilot lamp lights, then
separate electrodes until pilot lamp glows to half-brilliancy Resistance of ..."
8. Modern American Telephony in All Its Branches by Arthur Bessey Smith (1912)
"pilot lamp.—In connection with non-multiple common battery switchboards what is
known as a line pilot lamp is much employed. This lamp is usually located at ..."
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