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act-sensor-memory-reset

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ACT sensor memory reset

Answer

YES with the battery pack.
NO with the ambient heat bath alone.

Reason Why

The alarm latch is a one-bit memory that must be reset to its standard clear state before the radiation sensor can be reused. In this case, the charged battery pack is treated as a work medium, so it can drive a controlled reset and prepare the latch in its reusable standard state. The ambient bath is treated as a heat medium, so by itself it cannot perform the same reliable directed reset. The example also shows an irreversibility pattern: useful work can be degraded into dissipated heat during reset, but the ambient heat bath alone cannot reconstruct the charged work resource.

Check

C1 OK - the battery pack can drive a controlled reset
C2 OK - the alarm latch can be reliably reset from work
C3 OK - the latch can be prepared in its standard reusable state
C4 OK - the sensor can be made ready for reuse
C5 OK - the work resource can degrade to heat during reset
C6 OK - the ambient heat bath cannot drive a controlled reset
C7 OK - the latch cannot be reliably reset from heat alone
C8 OK - the latch cannot be prepared in its standard state from heat alone
C9 OK - the sensor cannot be made ready for reuse from heat alone
C10 OK - the ambient heat bath cannot reconstruct the charged work resource by itself