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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by tjohns on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:07PM (#17815688)
The solid state electronics absolutely can and do fail. There's a reason why modern large aircraft typically have three redundant ADIRUs...
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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by metaphor on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:06AM (#17816213)
> There's a reason why modern large aircraft typically have three redundant ADIRUs...

That has more to do with aggregate risk management predominantly driven by predicted MTBF, failure mode analysis, and safety criticality levels.

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