what does bypassing a circuit with a wire mean?

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So context, I’m a maintenance engineer in training and I’ve been looking up tool that will be handy for various jobs etc. One common suggestion is a piece of wire to bypass a circuit.

What does this mean? I’d ask my supervisor but I’m not sure whether that’s something we would do.

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In your job you will find that there are circtuits with switches, contactors, timer, etc. sometimes when you troubleshoot something you need to bypass these to test or to make the machine run while you get the proper replacement part or fix it, having a piece of wire that allows you connect one end of the circuit to the other side of these elements bypasasing it’s very handy specially if it allows you good control/connection/safety such as the 2 ends of multimeter probes connected to each other.

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