CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ will consitute of a breaking change warranting a new major release:
 
 # [unreleased]
 
+## Changed
+
+- Transmitter timeout set to 2 minutes instead of 15 minutes. This will prevent to discharge the battery
+  in case the syrlinks starts transmitting due to detection of unintentional bitlock. This happened e.g. on ground
+  when the uplink to the flying latop was established.
+
 # [v1.35.1] 2023-03-04
 
 ## Fixed

mission/system/tree/comModeTree.h

@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ extern ComSubsystem SUBSYSTEM;
 
 // The syrlinks must not transmitting longer then 15 minutes otherwise the
 // transceiver might be damaged due to overheating
-// 15 minutes in milliseconds
-static const uint32_t TRANSMITTER_TIMEOUT = 900000;
+// This is the initial timeout of 2 minutes. The timeout needs to be incremented
+// before each overpass
+static const uint32_t TRANSMITTER_TIMEOUT = 120000;
 
 Subsystem& init();
 }  // namespace com