Carenado Fokker F50 - Battery issue

[Monsieurigolo 0]

Hello,

I Just purchased the Carenado Fokker F50 (V 1.1). As I usually fly small turboprops (mainly C208), this one seems a bit more complexe, without reaching the complexity of a jet.
By the way, I've got an issue, and as usual, no flying manual is provided by Carenado. I noticed after following the engine start procedure (cold&Dark)  shown in the video made by Carenado, that all panel instruments turn down after about 15 minutes, whether I'm on the ground or in the air. (the engines still work fine, but the panel stays dark). I suppose I forgot something, like turning on a switch related to the battery, but I can't find the solution to that issue.

Maybe you can help me ?

Many thanks and best regards

Edited March 11, 2018 by Monsieurigolo

[Henry_C 3]

Did you switch on the generators? BTW, the flightdeck logic is such that buttons are not illuminated when they are in their normal state.

Regards,

Henry

[Monsieurigolo 0]

Hello Henry

Tks a lot for your answer. And for the solution, I did not Switch "off" the Generators !

Tks again for your help !

 

 

[Henry_C 3]

My pleasure. Glad I could help.

Cheers,

Henry

[tombollie 0]

I have the exact same issue, everything goes dark after +- 15 mins. Generators are ON though. Are you guys talking about the "knob" ? I have to set it to Freq GEN (50 Volts?)? Is there a manual available somewhere?

Edited March 13, 2018 by tombollie

[tombollie 0]

Is there any tutorial on how to correctly startup this aircraft? Why no manual?

[Greggy_D 935]

1 hour ago, tombollie said:

 Why no manual?

It's Carenado.

[Henry_C 3]

Tombollie,

Why do you think the generators are on? As long as the two generator buttons are illuminated (showing "off"), the generators are OFF, not ON. This may be your mistake.

For all kind of information (detailed subsystem manuals) for the F50 take a look at:

http://www.smartcockpit.com/

Regards,

Henry

Edited March 13, 2018 by Henry_C
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[Fdm79 4]

On ‎12‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 10:06 PM, tombollie said:

I have the exact same issue, everything goes dark after +- 15 mins. Generators are ON though. Are you guys talking about the "knob" ? I have to set it to Freq GEN (50 Volts?)? Is there a manual available somewhere?

It's a bug. 

GPU won't work anyway.

Our option is to setup the plane and start the engines very quickly ! 

 

PS - Carenado has a Pop up menu to turn on GPU with their Citation S550 which is quite older then the F50 (and it actually Works quite well)... And they are sometimes crazy enough to not implement a simple thing in a much newer add-on like the F50...

Go figure..... 

Edited March 14, 2018 by Fabio

[qqwertz 781]

I didn't appear to have that problem yet, but from another Carendo airplane I assumed that I should not only switch on external power, but also set the voltage rotating switch to external. I am not sure whether I actually spent more than 15 minutes in the cockpit without starting the engines, but I would think so.

Peter

[pacoge 1]

Same issue, tried everyrhing.  

[pacoge 1]

Answer recived from Carenado: 

"In this aircraft, the GPU it´s not modeled, so even if you press the ext power button, the batteries will deplete."

[qqwertz 781]

Wow.

[SquawkModeCharlie 32]

On 28/3/2018 at 6:51 AM, pacoge said:

Answer recived from Carenado: 

"In this aircraft, the GPU it´s not modeled, so even if you press the ext power button, the batteries will deplete."

Doesn't surprise me to be honest.

[pacoge 1]

Anyway I tell you that yesterday, instead of beguining from D&C situation started from SYSTEMS situation and turned on Ex. Pwr. and stayed for more than twenty minutes and everything was OK.