[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery

2011-08-29 Thread Fabio Azzarello
Hi all, what about the following link? http://www.nrel.gov/features/20100708_battery.html 73s Fabio IW8QKU/5 *Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 battery From: g0mrf@xxx Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:50:45 -0400 (EDT) Hi all. The ARISSat team seem to have reached the conclusion that the Silver

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery

2011-08-29 Thread Fabio Azzarello
Hi, here is another interesting link: http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/energystorage/news/2011/1482.html could it be an interesting opportunity for our birds ? 73s Fabio IW8QKU/5 On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Fabio Azzarello iw8...@amsat.org wrote: Hi all, what about the following

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Battery

2011-08-14 Thread Jim Jerzycke
Kind of a 2011 version of AO-7, but without the stable orbit! 73, Jim KQ6EA On 08/14/2011 10:18 PM, Anthony Monteiro wrote: Dear Friends, This is speculation but it looks to me like we have had a bit of good luck regarding the battery. Looking at the battery voltage from deployment on...

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery eclipse voltage decreasing

2011-08-13 Thread Phil Karn
On 8/11/11 8:46 PM, Gould Smith wrote: Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO has plotted the battery min/max for the last 8 days. We see that the battery voltage is decreasing at a faster rate than expected. Kenneth's graph can be found on the arissat1.org site under FAQ

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery eclipse voltage decreasing

2011-08-13 Thread Dave Guimont
Disclaimer: what follows is entirely my own personal opinion, not necessarily that of the ARISSat-1 team or anyone else. I might be missing information that would affect my analysis. Ken's plot is extremely valuable. It strongly suggests battery failure, not a negative power budget as Tony,

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery eclipse voltage decreasing

2011-08-13 Thread Phil Karn
On 8/13/11 6:11 PM, Dave Guimont wrote: How about you designing circuitry/program to charge cells individually rather than the battery. Or has that been tried?? That's a great idea; I wish I thought of it first, but it was Lou McFadden W5DID who published a paper at the AMSAT Symposium a few

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery eclipse voltage decreasing

2011-08-13 Thread Art McBride
, August 13, 2011 6:11 PM To: Phil Karn Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery eclipse voltage decreasing Disclaimer: what follows is entirely my own personal opinion, not necessarily that of the ARISSat-1 team or anyone else. I might be missing information that would affect

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery eclipse voltage decreasing

2011-08-12 Thread PA3GUO
Dear Gould / ARISSat-1 team, Thanks for sharing this ! When the battery would go dead (or has very long charge times), to what extend would that also impact the low power mode ? Better phrazed: what are the requirements to go/stay in low power mode ? Is there a (no power) mode, where there

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 Battery

2011-07-25 Thread Anthony Monteiro
Hi Clint, The battery can run ARISSat-1 for about 6 days on the ISS so it will still be almost fully charged if they run it for just 1 day. Once it is deployed, the solar panels will charge the battery. 73, Tony AA2TX --- On 7/25/2011 6:39 PM, Clint Bradford wrote: OK - Charging of the

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-17 Thread Armando Mercado
On 16 Apr 2011 10:47:57, John P. Toscano, W0JT wrote: Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure One small consolation is that if the ISS crew can't get it working before tossing it into space, it could (possibly) be brought back to Earth on a future return trip to be diagnosed

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-17 Thread R Oler
Robert WB5MZO From: am25...@triton.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:47:09 -0400 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure On 16 Apr 2011 10:47:57, John P. Toscano, W0JT wrote: Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure One small consolation

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-16 Thread tosca005
On Apr 15 2011, R Oler wrote: There are LOTS of reasons that the bird could have failed, in my viewpoint the BEST one is that the battery has some issues. Operating the vehicle in a thermal environment that it was not designed for would be a first guess, followed by some sort of crib death

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-16 Thread Bob- W7LRD
-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure On Apr 15 2011, R Oler wrote:  There are LOTS of reasons that the bird could have failed, in my viewpoint the BEST one is that the battery has some issues. Operating the vehicle in a thermal environment that it was not designed for would be a first guess

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-15 Thread R Oler
There are LOTS of reasons that the bird could have failed, in my viewpoint the BEST one is that the battery has some issues. Operating the vehicle in a thermal environment that it was not designed for would be a first guess, followed by some sort of crib death issue, and next comes parts

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery

2011-04-15 Thread Nitin Muttin [VU3TYG]
; Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery To: lt;amsat-bb@amsat.orggt; Message-ID: lt;003601cbfa5a$09915070$1cb3f150$@netgt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII All I have to say here is quot;Pollyanna is alive and wellquot;. The spin machine goes into action. See below. Tom

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread Bob- W7LRD
can it default to solar cells? aka AO-7 73 Bob W7LRD - Original Message - From: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com To: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:33:40 AM Subject: [amsat-bb]  ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure RadioSkaf's Alexander, RA3WOK, just

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread Mark L. Hammond
I think I remember the answer is yes. Mark N8MH On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Bob- W7LRD w7...@comcast.net wrote: can it default to solar cells? aka AO-7 73 Bob W7LRD - Original Message - From: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com To: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent:

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread Clint Bradford
According to Anthony AA2TX's presentation/research ... -The battery must be initially charged to power up ARISSat-1 -The battery must have a charge for the initial 15 minutes of activation -ARISSat-1 will power down during eclipse if battery fails -ARISSat-1 can operate without battery in

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread P.H.
Hi Bob all.. As far as I can see, the main reason it needs power is to allow the transmitter to stay in the OFF state during deployment and for 15 minutes after release, once it switches ON the battery can be depleted without any adverse effects. This was talked about here on -bb a few weeks

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread Angelo Glorioso
: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure I think I remember the answer is yes. Mark N8MH On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Bob- W7LRD w7...@comcast.net wrote: can it default to solar cells? aka AO-7 73 Bob W7LRD - Original Message - From: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread Anthony Monteiro
Dear Friends, There has been a great deal of speculation on the amsat-bb about the Russian battery on ARISSat-1 having failed. Be aware that this is nothing other than idle speculation. There has been no information from RSC-Energia to support this. I believe the mis-information comes from a

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure

2011-04-14 Thread i8cvs
- Original Message - From: Anthony Monteiro aa...@comcast.net To: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:42 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 - Battery Failure Dear Friends, There has been a great deal of speculation on the amsat-bb about the Russian battery

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery.

2011-04-13 Thread Jimmy C kc9pxz
Hi, If we is the hams arournd the world I think most of us we ready to rock and roll then some. Im not sure what did or didn't happen. I just hope they do somthing before July a re run of the test is a thought. 73 kc9pxz Jimmy - Original Message - From: g0...@aol.com To:

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery.

2011-04-13 Thread G0MRF
Well found Matt Looks like the contents of page 9 highlight some potentially critical issues. Time will tell. David In a message dated 13/04/2011 20:11:43 GMT Daylight Time, sq7...@poczta.onet.pl writes: http://arissat1.org/media/pdf/ARISSat-1%20CDR%20Battery.pdf very

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Schuessler
All I have to say here is Pollyanna is alive and well. The spin machine goes into action. See below. Tom Schuessler, N5HYP __-- Subject: [amsat-bb] ARISSat-1 battery. From: G0MRF@xxx Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:11:21 EDT

[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery.

2011-04-13 Thread Mateusz
http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2nid=11374lang=en From: g0...@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:31 PM To: sq7...@poczta.onet.pl ; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 battery. Well found Matt Looks like the contents of page 9 highlight some potentially