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Harald67 / c150

Flightgear Cessna 150
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Problem with circuit breakers #67

Open gilbertohasnofb opened 7 years ago

gilbertohasnofb commented 7 years ago

From this forum post here https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=30641 :

So I was trying to do some dusk/night flying at my local airport in the Cessna 150. When I tried to turn on the Landing Lights, I get a pop-up screen telling me to check my Circuit Breakers and none of the aircraft electrical would work after that. I could see where the circuit breaker was located under the light switches, however, they cannot be interacted with. I could not find anything in the menus that had anything to do with circuit breakers either. I DID find the section for failures under the equipment menu but it looks as if all failures are disabled. Not sure if this is a bug with the aircraft or something I am supposed to be able to deal with in the sim. I "reset" the aircraft and I got all the electrical to work but the landing lights still caused a circuit breaker message when I attempted to turn them on. At least the rest of the electrical continued to work this time, but no landing lights. Any suggestions?

The user does not specify which c150 he is using, but I suspect it is ours. Can anyone reproduce it? If not, I will attempt to do so myself later.

wlbragg commented 7 years ago

I verified it.

I didn't notice that there was code to use the ALS landing light. I commented that I didn't think it was modeled yet because of that and I didn't see any exterior light modeled on the wing.

Sorry, I will correct my comment in the forum.

gilbertohasnofb commented 7 years ago

@wlbragg Thanks a lot! @Harald67 would you mind taking a look at this when you have time? I am not familiar with the ALS implementation of the lights.

ghost commented 7 years ago

There is an ALS landing light which is working quite well and when just using the landing light while system is running on battery or engine and not while starting. When having the landing lights on while starting or switching them off and on again in a short time, they have a problem and so the circuit breaker goes out. So far this can maybe even be realistic on that kind of airplane, but a failure seems to block the landing light from working again after the circuit breaker is pushed back in via the menu, I will have a look at that.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Btw, what we could add is that the landing light (at the cowling?) is lighted when landing light is on. At the moment there is just the ALS landing light

ghost commented 7 years ago

After a short test I saw that actually the landing lights are the only ones reacting on a circuit breaker output. I don't know why they are reacting, while they don't work after the circuit breaker was one time out and why the other breakers don't work at all.