On 16 May 2006 11:30:22 -0700, wrote:

Voltage dropout is a type of conducted susceptibility noise. The
length of the dropout determines whether it is just a transient, or a
true brownout.

Avionics systems are supposed to be able to handle short term dropouts
associated with bus switching, etc. Maybe this one is poorly
designed...

Dean

the guy needs to put a fast sampling volt meter on it and redo the
sequence.
the chopper outages were only identified when the data from the meter
was uploaded to a pc and looked through with an excel spreadsheet.
you never would have picked it while looking at the meter display.

Stealth Pilot