On 2 Jan 2009, at 13:26, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > Could we find more descriptive property names for these voltage/ > potential > difference properties? Just to make it clear what they are (and avoid > confusion with potential future properties, e.g. for current, charge > or > power).
Good point. I'm hopeful that adding a simple current-draw model will be 'easy' (for a given value of easy, naturally) if we start standardising such things, so it'd be great to think about this now, before people start using new property names. systems/electrial.cxx would be a good starting point for this - it's simplistic right now, but a few more component types (especially a fuse)[1], and a Nasal interface to allow the electrical system to be controller trivially by an aircraft designer, and it'd be pretty respectable. FGElectricalOutput is pretty close to my proposed base class for electrically powered instruments - it needs some extension, but it makes sense to aggregate (in the C++ sense) that functionality into instruments. James [1] - whoops, FGElectricalSwitch provides a circuit-breaker function. Once again proving that for everything you might want to do, FG already contains code for it, you just need to find the code :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
