RR_NDB
Good vector. I somehow missed Turin's post. Your and his points are well made--the battery is more or less isolated from providing power unless needed.
That is what I thought you said the first time but I just wanted to make sure that for some odd reason that the 787 did not depart from decades of precedence as to how the busses are powered and when.
I am still mulling over a point you raised on one of the threads (this one perhaps) regarding that unless the aircraft is completely unpowered (no external power for example) or else a serious in-flight degradation of the power supplies occurs, that the battery may never undergo a complete (or near complete) discharge and re-charge cycle. There simply would be no need for it.
There is something about that point that makes one wonder if it in any way relates to the matter at hand. I am afraid I cannot answer that but someone needs to...
Last edited by Uncle Fred; 29th Jan 2013 at 21:22.