<div dir="ltr">'Burst Kill' is essentially a countdown timer which starts after the sonde starts to descent. Once the timer reaches zero, the sonde shuts off.<div>It looks like the default burst-kill time is <b>8.5 hours</b>. That's how long we have to get the landing position of the sonde after burst.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Mark</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:31 AM, P Wegener (VK5PW) via Vk5-wx-sonde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com" target="_blank">vk5-wx-sonde@vk5fo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Mark, can you just give a little more info on what this burst
kill mode is, thanks<br>
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<div class="m_7746947326461482209moz-cite-prefix">On 18/05/18 18:53, Mark Jessop via
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<div dir="auto">I need to investigate a bit more if the sondes
have the 'burst kill' option enabled. I suspect the sondes are
turning off a bit sooner than the power draw off the batteries
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<div>Yesterdays seemed to have reset and restarted on its
own while I was walking out to it.</div>
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<div>Todays stayed off ,</div>
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<div>both ok and restarted when the power button pressed,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Does the sonde turn back on again if you
press the power button? Or is it actually dead?
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-34.47644, 139.20951 N3740553 recovered<br>
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I could not get into position to see the landing
today due to rough <br>
terrain.<br>
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another hard landing though , sonde turned off on
impact, same as <br>
yesterdays.<br>
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