PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-580
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 580
MARCH 2001
Inside the battery compart-
ment, the battery retainer
breaks. Outside, the lip of the
housing that meets the cover
shatters.
Here’s how to prevent this
kind of criminal activity:
Insert the batteries into the
cover retainer and not the
compartment.
PS 580
MAR 01
51
PS 580
MAR 01
50
AN/PVS-14 NVD.
..
…The
Forced Cover Caper?
Who is the
real
victim in…
T
here’s a crime being committed against the battery retainer cover, NSN 6160-01-
444-1208, and the battery housing of the AN/PVS-14 monocular night vision
device. And chances are good that you, the user, are the perpetrator.
Your crime is carelessness and the results are…
Let’s look at the scene of
the crime. You’re on an exer-
cise. It’s night. It’s cold, so
you’re wearing gloves. You
have to replace the batteries in
your night vision device. You
take out the old batteries, drop
in the new ones, and push hard
on the cover.
When you put the batteries into the
compartment first, it’s easy to break
the retainer when you push the cover
on. Make sure you have the battery
polarity right when you put in new
batteries.
If you don’t, you’ll be opening the
compartment again, because you
won’t be operating.
Keep the neck cord out of the way.
The neck cord is threaded through the
edge of the cover and keeps you from
losing the cover in the dark. But this
preventive measure can lead to dam-
age if the cord gets wedged between
the cover and the housing. When that
happens, and you push hard on the
cover, the edge of the housing shatters.
Read your TM. Don’t have it? TM
11-5855-306-10 can be downloaded
from the USAMC Logistics Support
Activity
(LOGSA)
website
at:
www.logsa.army.mil
.
…a busted
battery
retainer…
…and a
broken
battery
housing
Then when
you push
hard on the
cover…
CRACK!
cover and the housing
Put the batteries
into the latch first
580. 50-51 (C)
2/9/01
10:56 AM
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