Personnel should be advised that when high power radar
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transmitters are operated out of their protective cases, X- rays may
be emitted. Stray X- rays may emanate from the glass envelope
type pulser, oscillator, clipper, or rectifier tubes, as well as
magnetrons.
COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS
To prevent possible fuel ignition, an insulated airborne weather radar
should not be operated while an aircraft is being refueled or defueled.
M.C. Beard
Director of Airworthiness.
A28- 1146- 102- 00
PRIMUSr 880 Digital Weather Radar System
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circulars
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