Battery master - where do I find it?

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Battery master - where do I find it?

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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.

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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
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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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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. :oops:
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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?

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Isn't the FSUIPC figure a "O" for extended battery life OFF??
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Killratio wrote:Isn't the FSUIPC figure a "O" for extended battery life OFF??
Uhh......yes you are right :oops: 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.

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allonan2361 wrote:spent two minutes moving my throttle back and forth cause thats how I turned it on. :oops:
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!
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..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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Post by Killratio »

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.


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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.


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So do I understand that the "battery master switch" was outside of the cockpit and flipped by the groundcrew?
No battery, only acc??
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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?

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Post by lonewulf47 »

The voltmeter is hot-wired to the battery. There's no other indication than the actual battery voltage - forever :lol: 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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Ok, thanks Oskar!!! :)

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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 :D
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