John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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and main bus were all reading all right.
I felt
it was just a misbalance of loading.
I talked to
somebody previous to this time and it was
explained to me that this could happen this way.
I felt perhaps it was in the adapter batteries-­
would feed through on one of the stacks causing
one of them to take more than the other.
Yes.
You could have gotten into the knee of an
adapter-­
This is what I had figured-- that a couple of my
adapter aatteries were unbalanced, causing this
to occur.
I also had seen this on the simulator
quite a few times.
When did the unbalance start? When we got in
they were-•
As soon as we were on internal
power?
Right.
And I didn't feel this was the time to
talk about it. It was still under 30 amps, which
was my point.
So I didn't bring it up.
You didn't want to worry me?
I didn't want to worry you and I didn't want any­
body on the ground to start hollering about it.
You should have written me a note.
I did feel that this was exactly what it was-­
~Q~~ftE)EN:rJAL­