Socket7 Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 So I've been investigating strange behavior on the standby generator. It appears to stop working after you turn the APU off and then back on again. I've attached a track file of my testing. I turned on the APU, and used the standby generator to charge both batteries before starting the engines. After starting the engines I ran various tests to make sure the standby generator works in various configurations of the rectifiers generators and inverters being on or off. The standby generator worked fine. I then turned off the standby generator and shut down the APU. I spent 5 minutes flying around the airport to let the APU cool, and then restarted it. After restarting the APU, The standby generator fails to produce a load on its ammeter, and the DC selector knob shows 0 volts while set to the standby gen position. :pilotfly:StandbyGeneratorFailure.trk Practice makes perfect.
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