battery empty after a while
 

Hello all,

hopefully sombody can help me, i downloaded a A300 with a panel that simulates the whole powercircuits of a A300.

For this, in the aircraft.cfg is written:

[ELECTRICAL]
electric_always_available=1

Nevertheless FS9 ignores this and battery is empty after about 10min.

Maybe somebody had this issue before and has a idea why the battery is going empty even if i have that lines in the aircraft.cfg?

Thank you

caxacix

Hello caxacix!

Which A300/panel do you wanna fly? This information should be very helpful. Thanks!

Hi,

i have the A300B4-2C Airbus and panel from Benoit Gaurant, downloaded from avsim.com.

If you search for Benoit Gaurant you'll find it, and also a documentation which includes that it is very important to have
electric_always_availble on 1, and i have it on 1, nevertheless the batteries run low.

It's a3bgtv30.zip

The entry electric_always_available in the aircraft.cfg will not prevent the battery from draining.

According to the SDK This flag enables electrical power regardless of the state of the battery or circuit.

The only way to prevent the battery from draining is through a registered version of FSUIPC. (but this would be a cheat;) ).

The battery is supposed to provide the aircraft with electrical power until you start the APU or the engines and supply electrical power through the generators.

You could also connect to an external ground supply (if available).

Cheers

Thomas

thank you so far..

And that is exactly the problem, battery is running low even if i have connected external power, also if i have the APU running and APU generator turned on, and the most strange thing, even if i have the both engines running and Gen1 and Gen2 turned on, the power is cutted off after a while...

I fear more and more that this is just a problem of the aircraft model or panel i've downloaded, but that would be a pitty because except that problem i find it very very great.

...one more thing, when you say this flag enables eletrical power regardless to the state of the battery or circuit, wouldn't this mean that i would need to have power even if the battery is empty?

I found the mistake. The entry should be
electrical_always_available=1

I hope this helps because I don't have this aircraft installed and could not check this out.

I think this entry causes the battery to provide electrical power even if it's empty. This is not very realistic, but Benoit wrote that this entry is necessary.

Well, that's exactly how I would interpret it.

You could download the Aircraft SDK and have a look at the electrical section. Maybe the entry engine_generator_map is wrong.

Cheers

Thomas

Errr...according to the SDK it's electric_always_available .;)

Try it out ... please!