Version:
1.5.4.0
Frequency:
Consistently
Severity:
High
Bug description:
I am greatly enjoying implementing my hydraulics using the new Modular Hydraulics System, it is excellent, I just have an issue:
It is not possible to access the pressure of redundant hydraulic actuators via the Simvar. I have an actuator ‘Brakes’ with 2 redundant actuators, when I request the Simvar with the name ‘Brakes_1’ or ‘Brakes_2’, I get nothing back, accessing with ‘Brakes’ returns the pressure of ‘Brakes_1’ only.
I can view the pressures in the debug window.
A related sidenote, I would greatly appreciate a Simvar to read the pressure of a hydraulic line, currently, the only approach I can see is to create a fake actuator within the system at the location which you want to sample.
Repro steps:
Request pressure of redundant actuator.
Thanks,
Chris
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Hello @Skylizard8760
This is by design.
You cannot access each instance’s pressure individually.
This was deemed as not necessary and instead, the pressure from the instance with the best integrity and pressure will be returned.
Can you elaborate on why you would like to be able to access each pressure individually?
Regards,
Sylvain
Thanks Sylvian,
My use case is that each actuator is supplied by a different system and switched based on a lever in the cockpit. The aircraft has gauges for the brake pressure of each actuator regardless of which one is in use, so accessing the redundant actuator pressure is required.
In reality, both systems supply the same actuator, however I tried this and it didn’t work due to the return of the system going to the wrong reservoir. Dual actuators are equivalent in this case.
I have worked around this since by adding a dummy actuator on each system which is used solely to return the pressure on that system independently of the redundant actuator.
It’s more of a ‘nice to have’. What you’ve created with the modular hydraulics system is really great 
.
Many thanks,
Chris
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