[amsat-bb] Re: Can we get them to fix AO-40 first then?
Gordon JC Pearce
gordon at gjcp.net
Sat Oct 17 05:35:18 PDT 2009
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 03:24 -0400, Luc Leblanc wrote:
> 40 back, we will. If the voltage is clamped low and there is no other damage, we may end up waiting a long time for a cell to "open",
> hopefully not as long as for AO-07. ..or it may happen today. No success for even weeks or months does not mean that we won't eventually be
> successful.
On a more practical note, could there be some sort of failsafe "battery
went phut so disconnect it" device? I'm guessing a perfectly ordinary
inline fuse would be too simple, but perhaps some sort of mechanical
latch that would just pop the battery terminal if it lost power would
work.
Gordon MM0YEQ
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