Voltage regulator text, in german, what does it mean?

[Zendalar]

Ok, my voltage regulator is one that has been self made. It has a switch that says NORMAL (i know what that means :P) but the other position says ERHÄLT

What does that mean? I tried using babelfish, but it only translated it as "receives"...Does not make any sense...Any German linguistics here ??

Thanks in advance

//Zen

[Rick Lee]

The literal trans. is "maintain", but I'm not sure why it would say that.

[Joeaksa]

Zen,

Just a guess (without seeing the whole thing) but how about:

Normal & Maintenance positions???

Normal is easy and if Richard says Erhalt stands for maintain, it could mean a maintenance position. I have never seen a maintenance position on a regulator but could be a switch of some sort.

I would get Rolands email off one of his postings and email him directly. Take a pic of it and send it to him...

Joe

[Jens Wendorff]

"erhält" or the verb "erhalten" means:
a) to receive
b) to maintain in terms of "to keep things at a certain level"
"erhält" in german is NOT used for "maintain" in the meaning of "maintenance"

No idea what its supposed to do on a voltage regulator though.

Jens (native german)

[Zendalar]

Well, like I have said on some posts before, the PO has done many stupid "conversions" to the car. Guess I have to open up the regulator and check out what it really does.

Thanks anyway

//Zen

PS: Mmm, the car is being painted, gonna get it back sunday Signal red!