duty cycle
noun1
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period.
2
Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The ratio between the percentage of time when a device is performing its work (duty) and the percentage of time when it is not working (e.g., idling, coasting, or turned off).
- motors that are not designed for 80% duty cycles because that was never their appropriate use case