Originally Posted by MickG0105
Your suspicions and prioritisation of problems aside, can you help answer the question, Does shedding power to the TCAS have any impact on other Mode S transponder functions? (eg is ATC SSR impacted?)
My conjecture would be that if the manual was specific enough to tell you that you'd lose TCAS, it would also mention that you lose the entire transponder, if that were, indeed, the case. Then again, how much power does TCAS really take?