|
|
Bill Dube wrote:
Here is Bob K's and his well reasoned argument FOR fuses
<http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/Rev9/ch10-9.pdf>http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/Rev9/ch10-9.pdf
The keystone of Bob's endorsement of fuses:
When the failure manifests itself by opening the breaker or
fuse likelihood of recovering the system by replacing a
fuse or pushing in a breaker is very, very small.
I don't read Bob that way, Bill. What I hear him saying is that when the stuff hits the fan, pilot's shouldn't be pulling off their pilot caps in order to put on their mechanics cap. They should keep paying attention to flying the airplane and leave the troubleshooting till they're on the ground. The plane's electrical system should have been designed so that it would keep flying with any one system on the kaputz (technical Native American term).
But I bet I know what Leon's flight instructor would say about this discussion:
"What you gonna' do now?"
I've got an idea. Let's all install circuit breakers and then ACT like they're fuses. Then if you're gliding in from 10,000ft and get board, you can start playing Mr. Goodwrench to see if the fan will come back online. Best of both worlds 8*)
--
,|"|"|, |
----===<{{(oQo)}}>===---- Dyke Delta |
o| d |o www.ernest.isa-geek.org |
|
|