Le mardi 22 novembre 2005 à 09:36 -0600, Curtis L. Olson a écrit :
> AJ MacLeod wrote:
> 

> >
> 
> I should point out that unlike you, I have no electrical engineering 
> background at all.  I know you plug the cord into the hole in the wall 
> and hit the power button.  If that doesn't work you buy a new gizmo, or 
> if all your gizmos are inop, call the power company.
> 
> And I was the person who wrote the original xml based electrical system 
> and admittedly it was *seriously* flawed.
> 
> I hacked and hacked on it for a couple days trying to make it do enough 
> to model things like battery charge/discharge and drive voltmeter and 
> ammeter gauges.  I even wanted to do load sharing between two 
> alternators.  That was the final straw.  I finally gave up and pronouced 
> the xml system hopelessly ill conceived and poorly implimented.  It's 
> still there for backwards compatibility so we don't break things that 
> current do work (by some stroke of luck.)  But I don't recommend that 
> new aircraft use it.
> 
> The nasal system is much more of a do-it-yourself thing.  But you can 
> make it work.  You can make it handle the important complexities of a 
> real electrical system (especially in more advanced aircraft.)  You need 
> to be able to write down your logic in script form, but that's a skill 
> that people can learn, and hopefully as we move forward we'll have more 
> and more examples for people to work from.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Curt.
> 

Later on, i will try to include in Crusader "the emergency air driven
generator" which was (the history said it ) often useful.
I need to learn how to process  with Nasal, the main electrical
functions of an a/c.
Not sure to be able to, it could take time.

Cheers 
-- 
Gerard


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