load line

The vessel is at its limiting draft or legal load line.

Instead of loading lines to close to 100 percent, there needs to be some extra room allowed for problems."

The load line makes it easy for anyone to determine if a ship has been overloaded.

The letters on the load line marks have the following meanings:

Note: A small generator simply lacks the power to energize a loaded line.

Such a survey includes an inspection of the hull to make sure that the load line has not been altered.

Find out more about our Stability guidance and load lines for powered or sailing vessels.

The example at right shows how a load line is used to determine the current and voltage in a simple diode circuit.

Any ship that returned to port with its "load line" below the water would be heavily fined.

In 1906, laws were passed requiring foreign ships visiting British ports to be marked with a load line.

The load line diagram at right is for a transistor connected in a common emitter circuit.

Letters may also appear to the sides of the mark indicating the classification society that has surveyed the vessel's load line.

The horizontal line through the circle of the Plimsoll mark is at the same level as the summer load line.

Krarup cable is a method of loading lines to reduce their distortion.

Loaded lines are lines designed with deliberately increased inductance.

All commercial ships, other than in exceptional circumstances, have a load line symbol painted amidships on each side of the ship.

Load line (electronics), a method of determining operating points in circuits with non-linear elements.

The load line (diagonal line) represents the relationship between current and voltage in the linear part of the circuit.

The quiescent point of operation is typically near the middle of the DC load line.

Notice that the presence of the signal e.m.f. in both these cases causes the load line to move parallel to itself with time.

This is called the "freeboard mark" or "load line mark" in the marine industry.

The point on the load line where it intersects the collector current axis is referred to as saturation point.

A load line, usually a straight line, represents the response of a linear circuit connected to the nonlinear device in question.

Load lines can be used separately for both DC and AC analysis.

There was no gunwale; the vertical side of a turret ship curves inward above the load line to a horizontal plane.