GumidekCZ Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Yesterday, I did night landing in MP with my friends and I depleted battery soon with some of circuits ON after shutdown. Therefore, I thought, that connecting external power would kick my instruments, lights and ignition back alive. Nevertheless, nothing happened at all. Did something wrong or it should be like this, or is it bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuiGon Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Yesterday, I did night landing in MP with my friends and I depleted battery soon with some of circuits ON after shutdown. Therefore, I thought, that connecting external power would kick my instruments, lights and ignition back alive. Nevertheless, nothing happened at all. Did something wrong or it should be like this, or is it bug? External power should get your electrics going again, so either you did something wrong or there is indeed a bug. Intel i7-12700K @ 8x5GHz+4x3.8GHz + 32 GB DDR5 RAM + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 (8 GB VRAM) + M.2 SSD + Windows 10 64Bit DCS Panavia Tornado (IDS) really needs to be a thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeCuvier Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I tried using the Instant Action "Take-off" mission. I cut the engine and left all electrical loads ON. The battery discharged and lights & instruments were dead. Then I tried: 1. Start the engine: the engine would not ignite. I would have thought that even with an empty battery, the generator would supply sufficient power to provide ignition (like you used to be able to start the engine of your car with some people pushing). 2. with Ground Electric Power ON Lights and instruments were still dead. I still could not start the engine. 3. With ground electric power OFF, I requested repair, hoping that they would swap out the dead battery; but nothing happened. It seems that a discharged battery is the end of the story. I would state that this is totally unrealistic, and therefore to be considered as a BUG. 1 LeCuvier Windows 10 Pro 64Bit | i7-4790 CPU |16 GB RAM|SSD System Disk|SSD Gaming Disk| MSI GTX-1080 Gaming 8 GB| Acer XB270HU | TM Warthog HOTAS | VKB Gladiator Pro | MongoosT-50 | MFG Crosswind Pedals | TrackIR 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GumidekCZ Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 Many thanks LeCuvier for confirming BUG, please can Adimins shift this into BUG section? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimbur Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 und bis jezt ist nicht viel passiert oO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ala13_ManOWar Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 On 10/10/2018 at 11:35 AM, LeCuvier said: 1. Start the engine: the engine would not ignite. I would have thought that even with an empty battery, the generator would supply sufficient power to provide ignition (like you used to be able to start the engine of your car with some people pushing). In fact, you don't need a battery nor usually any ground power at all to run the engine, power is provided by magnetos and those are independent mechanical devices for the same reason, you just need gas on the tank to run the plane, nothing more. And specially on 109 were fly wheel is ran by ground crew cranking up a shaft by hand. A plane is not a car. You need power supply only in planes which run electric starter engines without the hand cranking possibility. So yes, something's going on there. 2 "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafspee Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 (edited) If your batter is depleted you will not start engine in K-4 despite fact that you can crank engine via inertia starter. First main thing which prevent engine starting is lack of ignition system being energized by battery, remember that at slow crank engine speed magnetos aren't capable of producing spark, so ignition system needs help there from battery, second thing is fuel pumps, those require electric power too. Thing that ground power do nothing as well as running repair is obvious bug. Edited February 28, 2023 by grafspee 1 System specs: I7 14700KF, Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite, 64GB DDR4 3600MHz, Gigabyte RTX 4090,Win 11, 48" OLED LG TV + 42" LG LED monitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimbur Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 I see it the same way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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