Posts by Bobbo

Re: Well...

Almost entirely correct! The seat will fire automatically in the event of a lift fan failure, as this just happens too fast for any human to react. The pilots did not like this feature being added at all!

And almost no connections from the aircraft to the seat, as you say, the interface block just passes through signals for the helmet and comms, however, the seat height is passed back to the aircraft, so the system can marry up the head angle with a position and work out where the pilot is looking, for the helmet functionality

Re: Bizarre, but in the interests of science...

Those are mostly to stop cosmic rays causing single event upsets. Although it would also stop the light in this case...

Re: Soldering iron

Noooo! When you solder crimp connectors, the solder wicks up inside the wire. This causes the wire to become stiff and will fracture with flexing. Any connectors which use soldering will have better cable support.

Also, with the crimp terminals, use the ratcheting crimp tools-about 4x the cost of the cheap flat ones but they make joints that acutully last