Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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the light 2 or 3 times and he turned the heater
off then it ca.me on again. You lmow, for an
hour's per iod of time and he nBver had the lights
again.
Now, this is another reason why I suspect
this OAMS system-- one of the biggest mistakes
ever made--whoever recommended it on the ground
to power down that OAMS heater to save electrical
ener gy fouled our whole system because we started
at this point time having RCS heater lights.
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checked for 8 days throughout the flight and I
could always get an RCS heater light. If I
turned off that heater switch I 1 d·have an RCS light
come on every once in a while and so we left those
RCS heaters on all the time.
Cooper
From one day and 14 hours the RCS heater were on
the whole flight.
Conrad
You lmow they're auto .
And the only heat when
necessary, but every time we turned the heater
off we wouldn't run for an hour or two that the
light didn ' t come back on again and it would
either be on ring A or ring B.
Cooper
And the temperature that we'd get on the gage
when those lights would come back on was something
in the order of about 60 degrees wasn' t it?
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