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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It really depends.

If you have a circuit whose job is to, say, give 12V to a motor when a password is successfully entered, you can “bypass” it by just directly connecting the 12V battery to the motor with a wire.

If you have a circuit, whose job is to amplify the signal from a turntable to a speaker, no, you can’t just connect a wire from the 12V battery to a speaker. That’s not gonna give you music.

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