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Old 10th Feb 2010, 21:51
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David Horn
 
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aristoclis - I was thinking of it this way:

Gen 1 and 2 failure... if it didn't happen simultaneously, then the APU will probably already be running following the first failure. If GEN 1 failed and then GEN 2 failed almost immediately afterwards, an APU start is still possible at the expense of battery life.

AC BUS 1 + 2 failure... well, there's no available AC bus to connect the APU to, so why start it?
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