What alert is this? ALTNR AMPS
Looks like you donāt have the generator on. ALTNR is alternator, so itās reading low Amps, and most likely none.
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My guess without seeing the current draws is the gen is off and the alternator is trying to supply all the electrical load and canāt. It has a much lower total capacity than the main gen.
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Set āStby ALT PWRā to ON and Reset āGeneratorā
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Thanks, that helped a lot.
Does anyone knew the keyboard command for the Generator switch? Iām flying here with several Streamdecks, which I use for control anything 
taking advantage of holiday break I prepared a small update to the grand caravan MOD.
ChangeLog:
- emergency power lever simple implementation
- scaled N1 gauge to b able to show 103.7 %
- added avionics power-on sound
- tweaks to flight model
it wouldnāt hurt to test this version more before official release. if you are interested go here:
Release Release v2212.1 Ā· NewoPL/msfs2020-C208-Improvment-Mod (github.com)
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Cool, looking forward to test it
Oh, my God, what have you done to the throttle axle? Unfortunately, it doesnāt work at all that the idle on the Honeycomb BTQ is somewhere in the middle where there is no resistance. 
Refer to the POH - the throttle axis now acts as it should with a beta range at the bottom. There is a generous idle zone that is not at all hard to find. I have it marked on my Logi quadrant with the sticky part of a sticky note defining the beta range. The use of the axis for beta and not just a toggle to go full-on reverse is because beta mode is used for taxiing in the 208 so you want to be able to apply it gently
This is all well and good but the most common throttle controllers donāt have an axis below whatever gate they may have. I wish they did but sadly not. If there is a gate then beyond it is normally just a switch. Yes you can do what you have but then you have no at the critical idle point. I use the throttle by feel and donāt really see the need to look at it when operating just so I donāt accidentally go into beta so this is less than ideal.
Yes, the change to the throttle is there since march, but i realized it might have not been officially released yet. Please note that the throttle has implementd a dead zone that makes the trottle stick to idle position for small range of controller input. that should help you not to struggle too much with setting the idle. I will add this info to release notes.
Same as the Kodiak? Here was a rollback due many negative resposnes
The idea of adapting the axis so that it works 1:1 like in real life is basically very good. The only problem is that none of us has the hardware where the points āIDLEā to āBETAā and āReverseā are marked by a resistance or where these points can only be overcome by pulling an additional lever.
And having to guess these points during an approach with adverse conditions is doomed to failure from the outset.
Even during stress-free taxiing on the ground, there was a constant unpleasant feeling.
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Thanks for your effort. Iām happy there is someone, who wants to improve the Caravan!.
I just tried the new mod, and have a few remarks and questions:
I canāt hear any new avionics power-on sound. What sould have changed?
It seems there is a new (alert) sound playing using the test switch, but this is only working without the FTSIM+ Mod.
The cabin switch is not longer working with the toggle-command, I couldānt figure out the new commands
Accorrding the throttle axis, I canāt see/ feel any differences, but the good old axis is good enought for me.
My wishes:
Working Bleed air, with sound
Inertial separator with impact to the engine
Governator with impact to the engine
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strangeā¦, do you see the switch stopped working after mod update or after sim update ?
on the previous mod version does it still work ?
just now, with the new mod. Iāve both installed and choosing it via addon linker
I pushed this release to flightsim.to
https://flightsim.to/file/16350/cessna-208b-grand-caravan-ex-improvement-mod
Happy holidays and a healthy start into the new year!
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OK I found a nice solution to keep both modes of the throttle lever. By default, the aircraft should now load with legacy mode for the first time. you can bind however the controller button to the event THROTTLE_REVERSE_THRUST_TOGGLE. pressing the button will allow you to change the throttle mode between old and new behavior. At the end of the flight simulator will remember the state of the throttle mode so you will not have to switch it over again and again. You can try the change from here:
NewoPL/msfs2020-C208-Improvment-Mod: Cessna 208B Improvment-Mod for Microsoft Flight Simumlator 2020 (github.com)
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Thanks for the workaround (and mod - shout out to magrainaOne as well for the contunued work), but I really think you should revert this throttle change completely.
Using a button to trigger reverse thrust is not ālegacy modeā, itās the default for simulation due to the wide range of controllers that donāt support a dual range throttle. Itās also how every other turbine plane (afaik) is set up to work with reverse thrust.
Thanks a lot!
Could you please check the Cabin switch as well?
Your new sound dosenāt work togehter with the FTSIM+ mod 