Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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When we powered down, we turned of.f the a . c.
power, t he QA.MS power, t he ACME": biag power, the
rate gyros, the horizon scanner, the IMU, the
computer, both FDI ' s , and the attitude indicator
lights.
We operated with as little in the way
of cockpit lighting as we possibly could. It
got less and less and less as the flight progressed.
In earlier orbits we had al l the lights on in the
cockpit- the over, the middle light , and the two
side lights . Then £or the night time passes, as
the flight progressed, we got around to using the
red lights.
We finally got around to making the
night-side passes generally with one r ed light on
or one white light on, as we got more confidence
in the spacecraft .
I think we save quite a bit o{
power that way.
They were surprised that we were
160 amp-hours ahead, and I don ' t think that we
got that way by accident.
White
I 've got a comment to make on that.
We were both
watching the loadings and I could read them a
littl e better over there. We started out operat­
ing arourd 14, maybe a l i ttle better.
The reading
on the combined amp-hours sl owly decreased down