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Old 2nd Jul 2013, 11:16
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cockney steve
 
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IF the designers have done their job properly, there will be a DIFFERENTIAL between the discharge and recharge minima.

This will ensure that the lowest discharge -level still allows safe onboard recharge...any system which doesn't, is, imho, unfit for purpose.

An electronically -controlled system should be self-monitoring and self-sufficient. It should always be available and serviceable for it's entire service-life.

The human interface is the point of "idiot input",- Very early on, we discussed the "possible" need to over-discharge cells in a real emergency...I suggested that a big, red," reserve battery emergency destructive supply" button could be placed in the cockpit, where the humans could override the system if that was needed to save the aircraft.
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