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                           AeroElectric-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Thu 03/30/23: 2
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     1. 06:03 AM - Re: Speaking of Lessons Learned  (GLEN MATEJCEK)
     2. 06:10 AM - Re: AeroElectric-List Digest: 2 Msgs - 03/29/23  (Jack Bell)
 
 
 
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Time: 06:03:50 AM PST US
From: GLEN MATEJCEK <fly4grins@gmail.com>
Subject: AeroElectric-List: Re: Speaking of Lessons Learned

>
> There was an article in Air & Space Smithsonian quite a few years ago on
> this topic, and after a lot of research and calendar time the author came
> to the conclusion that static discharge was the culprit.  Some time later
> he happened to be near Friedrichshafen and stopped in to look around and
> see what the Zeppelin company might think on the topic.  It seems they'd
> come to the same conclucion at the time of the accident, but the conspiracy
> theories still held sway.

Go figure.

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Time: 06:10:36 AM PST US
Subject: AeroElectric-List: Re: AeroElectric-List Digest: 2 Msgs - 03/29/23
From: Jack Bell <jack@comconn.com>


I had to do a double take. During the lab analysis, 37 minutes into 
the video,
the voltage measurements are being done with a high-dollar multi-meter..
one of the red freebies from Harbor Freight..

Jack, in Austin

> Time: 11:00:13 AM PST US
> From: "Robert L. Nuckolls, III" <nuckolls.bob@aeroelectric.com>
> Subject: AeroElectric-List: Speaking of Lessons Learned
>
>
> Electrical 'bonding' of components in aircraft
> is accomplished for some combination of three
> requirements (1) reliable connection of a
> device to power ground, (2) mitigation of
> radio frequency interference and/or (3)
> managing the effects of electro-static
> discharge (ESD).
>
> Here's a good example of failure to manage
> ESD back before we'd been schooled in
> 'lessons learned' . . . 1929
>
> https://youtu.be/LR02blpCJMk
>
> Some pretty cool detective work here . . .
>
>
>     Bob . . .
>
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>      In the interest of creative evolution
>      of the-best-we-know-how-to-do based
>      on physics and good practice.
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