THE TAPE RECORDER SHUTDOWN ALARM
International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1982 / Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California === Data from the Space Shuttle is recorded on magnetic tape during manufacture, during pre-flight tests and during flight. Thus a permanent record i...
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International Foundation for Telemetering
1982
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613484 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/613484 |
| Summary: | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1982 / Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California === Data from the Space Shuttle is recorded on magnetic tape during manufacture, during
pre-flight tests and during flight. Thus a permanent record is obtained for all tests. When a
tape recorder suddenly stops before the end of its run, some data will not be recorded.
Tape recorders run silently and make no sound when they stop. A tape recorder that is not
running is easily observed, but constant visual monitoring is impractical. Yet it is important
that personnel become aware of the problem at once. An audio alarm that sounds when a
tape recorder stops before the end of its run will alert personnel. An alarm in use at
Rockwell’s Flight Systems Laboratories not only sounds when a tape recorder stops before
it is supposed to, but it turns on a standby recorder in less than two seconds. |
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