29 Nov
2011
29 Nov
'11
6:55 p.m.
Would now be a good time to mention that Fox-1 is designed to operate while illuminated, even after a battery failure?
73, Jerry N0JY
On 11/29/2011 5:36 PM, Andrew Koenig wrote:
The thing I've been wondering (and this is in no way accusatory, just a question out of curiosity) is why we didn't build the IHU's with NVRAM and a circuit to cut the batteries completely out of the loop. Since the cell failure seems inevitable, it would only make sense to design the satellites in a way that they can work without the batteries when the batteries do fail.