As the men in the MER and at Bethpage calculated the maneuvers Aquarius would have to make and the power it would take from the LEM to power up the partially depleted entry batteries in Odyssey, it was decided that Aquarius would somehow have to use a maximum of 15 amps when it was not maneuvering. Until the day of the accident, the LEM’s designers had calculated that the LEM’s minimal configuration used 20 amps.
