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If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices
by ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices
- kridsdale1 2mo agoThey just have access to classified physics and definitions of energy most people don’t have.
- waste_monk 2mo agoTurns out the weather balloons are powered by swamp gas.
- elictronic 2mo agoSmall solar panel and a charge controller. Defeat physics with this one trick.
- wongarsu 2mo agoMy transmitter shuts down after a certain amount of time. At the latest when the solar panel is heavily degraded. This is due, among other things, to strategic considerations
- chabska 2mo agoIt's weirdly phrased, but it just means that they don't have a tight control for battery capacity. Their device is designed to operate for at most ten hours (for example), but the battery that they use could have anywhere between 8-12 hours of supply, so the transmitter would be active anywhere between 8-10 hours.
- wongarsu 2mo agoIn your scenario the device shuts done when the battery runs out, but at the latest after 10 hours. That's different from "at the latest when the battery capacity is exhausted". Instead the implied mode of operation is that they shut down after 10 hours, but sometimes they dont and after 12 hours the battery is empty. Or maybe it's another trigger (location?) that is not always active or does not always trigger