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environmental control units
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environmental control units (ECUs),
various apparatus for disabled persons that control devices such as lamps, television, radio, telephone, and alarm systems. Similar to television remote control devices, they are typically switches manipulated by the lips, chin, or other body movements.


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Depending on the vehicle, there can be 3 to 15 ECUs (over 50 in some high-end vehicles) with hundreds of embedded software modules; and each of these applications must inter-communicate.
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where you will see that Mrs Thatcher was asking something like 2,000 ecus (a pre-single currency European accounting unit) and she ended up crying, accepting, begging half of it.
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ECUs are generally sealed units and repair is often impossible.
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