Steam Br363 Oil Temperature Off The Charts

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  1. Purno

    Purno Well-Known Member

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    See gauge for oil temperature. I'm no mechanic but can't be good if oil tempertature exceeds the maximum the gauge can display. :cool:
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    aeronautic237 Well-Known Member

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    This reminds me of KLM Cityhopper 433, where a tiny soldering joint caused an intermittent short circuit in the engine oil warning light, and the pilot then did incompetent things and crashed. At least Purno isn't an incompetent driver, and knows a sensor failure when they see one (and how to deal with it)... right?
     
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    Hiro Protagonist Well-Known Member

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    Not to mention the initial cause behind the Apollo 13 incident, which was that a LOx tank got heated hot enough to strip the insulation off the wiring inside due to it being put on a test bench overnight where the temperature gauge max was pegged at 80F (not the 1000+F that it actually got up to on the bench), and the safety thermostatic switch was fused shut by being run on 65V DC rather than the 28V it would see in space.

    Gauges are important, people.
     
  4. Purno

    Purno Well-Known Member

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    Nopes. I carried on the service as planned, assuming oil temperature isn't simulated in TSW3. :cool:

    Might seem like a little detail, but even to someone who doesn't know anything about oil temperature or any related stuff, a gauge displaying a value outside of the range the gauge is supposed to monitor, does trigger my attention. Lets call it breaking immersion, no matter how small of a bug this is.

    Unless it's actually realistic to have this gauge display a value over the maximum, I don't know anything about the BR363 and if they were known for having problems with displaying oil temperature :) Who knows, might be a feature, not a bug.
     
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    Pipe Well-Known Member

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    If this oil temp was for real, you could asphalt the road with the results. And the gearbox would be a total beyond repair. The white marker bug + 10% should limit the tolerable range. But strange, did you find this on RSN?

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  6. Purno

    Purno Well-Known Member

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    Yes, during Journey mode, I believe this particular shot is from one of the Cement chapter services.
     

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