PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-689
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 689
APRIL 2010
42
PS 689
APR 10
43
PS 689
APR 10
Some of you are doing just that. You think the battery pack, since it has its
own stock number, NSN 6135-01-521-3064, is a separate item. You think it does not
need to remain with the DAGR when you turn in the DAGR for repairs or make a
lateral transfer.
Wrong!
A complete DAGR is a DAGR
with
a battery pack. Turn in or transfer a
DAGR without one and someone
down the line will have to buy one.
Eventually, that packless DAGR will
come back to haunt you by a debit
to your unit funds or a return to you
without repair. Yeah, you may sneak
a few through, but bad karma will
catch you!
And, store your DAGR with the pack attached. Some of you are removing the
pack and storing it separately with the batteries. But the pack serves a secondary
purpose. Besides holding the batteries, it forms a moisture barrier to protect the
DAGR’s inside components from water intrusion.
Keep this pair together and don’t separate the battery pack from the DAGR unit.
Dear Half-Mast,
I work in a DS maintenance shop repairing night vision goggles (NVG).
One of my co-workers asked me if there were any maintenance expenditure
limits (MEL) on NVGs. I looked in the TB, but it’s not very clear. What’s
the true word on MEL for NVGs?
S.M.Y.
Dear S.M.Y.,
Night vision goggles belong to federal supply class (FSC) 5855. The MEL for that
supply class was once covered in TB 43-0002-11. But since the 1 Oct 2003 edition of
the TB, that supply class has been dropped! There no longer is a MEL for NVGs.
So, all NVGs under FSC 5855 need to be repaired to the -10/20 standard in
accordance with their applicable TM no matter the cost. Well, not quite all. If the
NVG has been really, really smashed or burned up or battle damaged beyond repair,
then don’t try to repair it.
If you need further clari±cation on this subject, contact
CECOM LCMC
at
DSN 987-5908 or (732) 427-5908, or by email
robert.esposito
@us.army.mil
The
Battery Pack
is a
Component Part
NVGs…
like new lovers
strolling hand-
in-hand, the dagr
holds onto its
battery pack
wherever it goes.
so
don’t
break your
dagr’s
heart
by separating
them!
Keep
battery pack
with DAGR
What
about
MEL
?
NVGs were once covered here
GPS DAGR…
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