razo+r Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 (edited) If I let the GC turn on ground power, the battery is not affected and the current is still going down. Shouldn't it stay the same? Or is there another system behind that? Edited March 4, 2018 by razo+r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LURKINGBADGER Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Good question, it might be the case that the ground power dosent charge the battery at all. It could be that the only way to charge the battery to run the engine and with it the alternator. Was wondering about that behavior as well. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted March 5, 2018 ED Team Share Posted March 5, 2018 I would need to check or get a spitfire expert to comment, but my understanding was the ground power was just for the starter and radios and so on, it did not charge the onboard battery. If I am wrong I am sure someone will correct me :) Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromhunt Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 (edited) Did the "starter charger" exist during the Second World War? An auxiliary park group only serves to save the batteries on board. With the invention of the APUs (auxiliary power unit) we can do without it. Maybe that's where the confusion comes from. But that did not exist at the time for the spitfires. It's funny to see people imagine that everything was like nowadays during the period of warbirds. On the other hand when the park group is connected, the battery is not solicited, so no voltage drop to observe. Maybe it's a bug or a programming error. Edited March 5, 2018 by cromhunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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