Originally Posted by
pulse1
The question of what the crewman was doing was raised. Well, one of his duties at this time was to check the DECU connectors every 15 minutes. Apparently this was because of a history of the connectors working loose under the vibration. At some stage in my working life I was part of a team which probably knew as much as anyone about the technology of light duty contacts and I was horrified when that information came out. Now, we all live in an electronic age where very few of us will not have fiddled with a connection to make it work but back in the 90's not many sliding contacts, which I presume that these were, had been designed to switch an active current. You would be surprised at how much damage even a few milliamps can do to rhodium or hard gold contacts. But, for most of us, our lives do not depend on the outcome.
I remember you posting about this and it’s the one thing you’d think the average person would understand. If a connector’s prone to working loose on a fuel computer at some point it’s going to fail. One of David Hill’s books points out that the Board said that no Servicing Instructions had been carried out. How did they know the crewman hadn’t checked the connectors? Any suggestion that the investigation was adequate is completely wrong.
Tuc I don’t know how you can remain so polite. Guys, this isn’t 2004. So much has been uncovered and put in the public domain. If you’re going to ignore or contradict it then offer a reason. Otherwise it’s trolling.