Post by Tom Goodrick on Oct 24, 2010 9:30:21 GMT -5
My AC500 has had the piston starting problem. Solutions have eluded us foryears.Today I stumbled on the fix.
Under Options/Controls/Assignments there is a Primer with nothing assigned for activation! All we have to do is assign a key or a button to it and the engine starts right up as soon as I pressed the primer button.
I was comparing the aircraft.cfg files for the AC560 with the AC500. The AC560 starts readily; the AC500 didn't. The AC560 has fuel-injected engines while the AC500 has carburated engines. Bingo! A light went on and I remembered always having to prime a carburated engine. I set that assignment and the engines started with Ctrl-E very nicely.
In some cases in the past I solved problems like this with adjustment of the startier torque. In this case I had set it the same (0.3) as the AC560. That had no effect. It kicked the rpm to about 150 which was plenty.
Under Options/Controls/Assignments there is a Primer with nothing assigned for activation! All we have to do is assign a key or a button to it and the engine starts right up as soon as I pressed the primer button.
I was comparing the aircraft.cfg files for the AC560 with the AC500. The AC560 starts readily; the AC500 didn't. The AC560 has fuel-injected engines while the AC500 has carburated engines. Bingo! A light went on and I remembered always having to prime a carburated engine. I set that assignment and the engines started with Ctrl-E very nicely.
In some cases in the past I solved problems like this with adjustment of the startier torque. In this case I had set it the same (0.3) as the AC560. That had no effect. It kicked the rpm to about 150 which was plenty.
