Andy Ross > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > OK with the name. PSI(gauge) is what we use over here, otherwise > > it's inhg absolute for the US. Gauge-inhg makes no sense. In real > > life there's no difference between the way the US and UK measure the > > pressure, it's the zero on the gauge which is different, so I think > > it's correct the way it is. Gives the right gauge readings anyway. > > In this case, "gauge" is important though: it indicates that the value > is a delta (the difference between MP and ambient pressure) and not an > absolute pressure. Do you not want this value? That is what is > normally termed "boost" when one talks about super/turbochargers.
Yes, I think you are right here. > > I named it that way to distinguish it from mp-inhg, which in the > > current code reports supercharger output before the 'wastegate' is > > applied. > > Yeah, but that's a bug. There is only one manifold pressure. Surely > you don't want *both* "mp-inhg" and "supercharger-output-inhg", which > mean exactly the same thing. > > > The important thing is for the pressure, in whatever units you want > > (apart from gauge-inhg), is reported _after_ the 'wastegate' > > etc. have been applied to the supercharger output. > > So it sounds to me like all you wanted was "mp-inhg" in the first > place... I'll just chuck the new properties. > Sounds the right thing to do, as you say there is only one manifold pressure - we can do anything else that's needed in nasal. If we can't then we might need to revisit this issue. Unless you think it's _better_ done hardcoded. Vivian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
