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Thailand Unplugged?

willyumiii
willyumiii
in The Electrical Forum

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10 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

When power fails, the drive motor works as a generator until the disks come to stop.

Generated power is enough to park the heads.

That sounds feasible, those disks do seem to spin for some time after shut down.

 

Sometimes when I pull a disk out of the docking station, even after proper dismount, I can still feel the gyroscopic effect of the spinning disks for some moments. 

 

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