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A large part of the reason that these are multi million dollar vehicles is that it needs to safely sustain a human pilot in it. Also, that pilot does need to g
by vanviegen 2mo ago
A large part of the reason that these are multi million dollar vehicles is that it needs to safely sustain a human pilot in it.
Also, that pilot does need to get paid on the 350 days a year that there are no forest fires to be extinguished.
- wartywhoa23 2mo agoA fuse can sit 99.9999999% of its lifetime in a circuit doing nothing, should we get rid of fuses?
- georgefrowny 2mo agoI've literally heard someone say that we should remove the protection circuits because it's two dollars of parts protecting under a dollar of amplifiers. Yes, the amplifiers are cheap, but the rest of the board isn't and if the amplifiers get blown up that's 1000 dollars in support costs and RMAs, bad customer opinion and a line stoppage to boot.
- vanviegen 2mo agoIf a fuse can be replaced by something that's a lot cheaper and also effective.. why not?
- wartywhoa23 2mo agoStochastic fuse with false positives and false negatives? No, thanks!