ORIGINAL: superdave01
If a products fails in the inviroment for which its intended to use in then its a flawed design...... I dont mean the ocassional lemon.
An armchair engineer speaketh.
Many times a electronic componemt is available in several operating temperature ranges, Many times a heat related problem will be from lack of propery heatsinking certain parts, Ive seen where there simply was no heatsink compound, In that case that alone fixed it.
Many times a heat related problem will be from someone installing an itty bitty black box in direct sunlight or perhaps attaching it to the muffler for additional nose weight. Tsk, tsk.
The question i wonder is how many cases of failure do we know of so far???
Ah, the first of numerous hypothetical questions like in the FASST Advisory that caused rational thinking to evaporate.
A little research on a web burn research site yielded the following:
Temperature of Water-Time to Cause a Bad Burn
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150°F (66°C) 2 seconds
140°F (60°C) 6 seconds
125°F (52°C) 2 minutes
120°F (49°C) 10 minutes
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I'm surprised the said fuselage interiors didn't burst into flames or the canopys didn't wilt.
Give it a rest guys. It is beginning to sound like a chorus of poor, pitiful me here.