Thread: K40 module
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Old 10-30-2007, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeremy5848 View Post
You're saying that if a code is set by the failure, I'll be able to read it and clear it but it won't necessarily point to K40? I'll know there was a failure (which I knew already). The only thing I'll learn is that the computer knows that something has happened...I'll be no better off than Apollo 11 was when the computer gave them a "program alarm" 60 seconds before landing on the moon. ("Something is wrong. You guess what it is.")

Jeremy
Such is the nature of the K40 fault. It provides power to numerous devices. If a device fails to activate or report its parameters because it has no power, the device will trip a code, but won't tell you why. That would be too easy.....The key is usually that the faults occur intermittently.
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