BRSimDesign’s Bonanza H35 and Debonair B33 CHT Gauge Fix
Hopefully I’ve put this the correct section. The few times I’ve posted my posts get moved to other areas…
Tired of the CHT gauge just sitting pegged on zero in the BRSimDesigns Bonanza H35 and Debonair B33? Here’s the fix to make them work correctly. You need to change the following files found in the “brsimdesigns-b35b33” and “brsimdesigns-b35” main files in your Community Folder.
Once the files above are opened double click the following:
“SimObjects”, then “Airplanes”, then “BRsimDesigns_B35B33” (or “BrsimDesigns_H35” for the Debonair)…
Now, first and foremost make a copy of the original engines.cfg and cockpit.cfg file(s). They may be kept in the same directory as the sim won’t see them with the “_COPY “appendage.
Changing one .cfg file at a time double-click on the “engines.cfg” and “cockpit.cfg” files and change the following lines within those individual files (you may copy & pastes the lists below as they are in order):
(in the engines.cfg file)…
cht_tuning_constant=1
cht_cooling_constant=0
cht_liquid_max_cooling=315
cht_heating_constant=920
cht_tc=2
rpm_on_cht_table=0.500000:0.500000, 1.000000:0.850000
(in the cockpit.cfg file include the bracketed “[CHT_TEMPERATURE]” as well)…
[CHT_TEMPERATURE]
min=0
max=250
lowLimit=0
green_start=100
green_end=220
yellow_start=0
yellow_end=0
red_start=220
red_end=250
highLimit=350
That’s it. That’s all it was. Basically in the engines.cfg files the “cht_cooling_constant=” line was set to “1 “ (which means “on”, “0” means “off”). That made it, if it moved initially at all, cool back down until it went to sleep (on zero). As far as the cockpit.cfg files the arcs were not delineated in the original files as to their parameters (they were all “0”. As such, the needle didn’t know where to go or point to.
Note that when starting on the runway with the aircraft already running the CHT will initially be on zero but will spring to life once throttling-up. I suspect it doesn’t know it’s running yet and I’m not that deep into programming to figure that one out. When starting the aircraft from a cold start however it will rise normally.
Now, if I could get the roof’s beacon to not flash inside the fuselage…