Apollo Lunar Module FDAI Restoration - Part 2: We try to power it up, but it's very broken

CuriousMarc Video 2 months ago

Description

We start our repairs and initial power up of the Apollo LM FDAI, the "8-ball" inertial attitude indicator from the control panel of the LM. But it doesn't quite turn out as we expected.

Link to LM-8 (Apollo 14) schematics:
https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/LM-8_Systems_Handbook_Rev_B.pdf

Links to more doc:
https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links2.html#gsc.tab=0
https://virtualagc.github.io/virtualagc/QuestForInfo.html
https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

Elevator Music Credit: Crinoline Dreams by Kevin MacLeod

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