Hi all,
A quick and perhaps stupid question - where is the battery master switch, or some kind of equivalent? I only have the manuals at the moment, not the actual aircraft, so perhaps it's obvious in the actual cockpit. I can't see it labelled in the manual, or anywhere in the screenshots though.
This seems like it blows all other add-ons of its kind out the water, just from reading the manual so far.
Thanks.
Battery master - where do I find it?
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
I dont think there is a Battery master switch, there is the Generator switch in the upper starboard side and on the Mk1 a starter mag switch on the lowersame side
Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
allonan2361, you are right. There is no battery switch indeed, that means, all electrical equipment should be switched off after engine shutdown. Especially the gear indicator light is likely to be overlooked (it is located on the power quadrant on the right side of the throttle lever).
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
The gear light is the one that gave me the most trouble took me a good ten minutes to figure out that I had to click it.......spent two minutes moving my throttle back and forth cause thats how I turned it on.
Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
On entering the pit and selecting "cold start" the voltmeter still reads 12.2 volts. Checked all switches off.
(also checked FSUIPC "battry life = 0")
What's electrically going on?
Puma
(also checked FSUIPC "battry life = 0")
What's electrically going on?
Puma
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
Isn't the FSUIPC figure a "O" for extended battery life OFF??
Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
Uhh......yes you are right Makes no difference what setting I choose, however...(so reading is continously 12.2 volts.) BTW it certainly is not a biggie; just wondering what's going on.Killratio wrote:Isn't the FSUIPC figure a "O" for extended battery life OFF??
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
Hehe, yeah. If you look closely there actually is a piece of metal attached to the throttle that pushes the small switch forward. It's awesome!allonan2361 wrote:spent two minutes moving my throttle back and forth cause thats how I turned it on.
Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
..just a historical tidbit... I'm not sure what it's called nowadays - maybe it is actually "Battery Master", but in the RAF in the '50's - '60's it was called the "ground-flight" switch, so as the aircrew shut down, pulled, pushed, closed or whatever - the last thing that was on the checklist was "Ground-flight to ground". Most every aircraft which had a battery had one.
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
Yes,
Introduced on the Mk V from memory. I can confirm the Mk I and II had a "live" system, no isolate switch for the Accumulator.
Darryl
Introduced on the Mk V from memory. I can confirm the Mk I and II had a "live" system, no isolate switch for the Accumulator.
Darryl
Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
So do I understand that the "battery master switch" was outside of the cockpit and flipped by the groundcrew?Killratio wrote:Yes,
Introduced on the Mk V from memory. I can confirm the Mk I and II had a "live" system, no isolate switch for the Accumulator.
Darryl
No battery, only acc??
Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
I was wondering this too... and I'm still a little confused. When I've completely shut down and exited the aircraft, the volts should still be reading 12.2?
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
The voltmeter is hot-wired to the battery. There's no other indication than the actual battery voltage - forever As already mentioned there is no Master Switch. EVERYTHING is directly wired to the battery - although most is at least fused.
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Re: Battery master - where do I find it?
I think it was done this way because the drain on the accumulator from the battery was negligble and these accumulators were changed on a very regular basis, It also provided groundcrew with a quick way to check the accumulators health without having to switch on systems. This is pure guess work on my part so I stand to be corrected
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