You should not be hitting the current limit of the VFD.
A VFD is a power conversion device, the input and output current do not correspond to each other during the motor acceleration at the lower frequencies. Once you reach 60Hz then the currents will be similar. The VFD could be outputting the...
You've been saying that. I don't believe they would use spring loaded fuel valves because that'd be really dumb to have on a plane where you want the engines to keep running.
Just another speculation article.
Sure, they would be investigating to see if the switches were intentionally moved, along with investigating a long list of other things that might have caused what happened.
Give details on the soft-starter failures?
FYI, any good soft-starter will protect against a phase loss or phase unbalance without extra external equipment.
You can apply AC voltage to the rotor and then measure the voltage on each coil/pole and compare. I don't know how much difference indicates a bad pole, but I know this is a test that sites with a lot of synchronous motors use to determine when a motor has rotor issues.
I can't see the plane being built so a power loss kills the engines when the engines are built to continue functioning through most plane electrical system issues. Also, it's be dumb to build a plane that kills the engines between a power loss and the RAT deploying.
Vapor lock was the dumbest theory I've heard so far.
The 787 flight software tries to correct for yaw on single engine failure. So, a single engine failing before lift off might not cause an obvious yaw. A theory that would make more sense was an engine failed somewhere around the V1 point and...
Putting the manual release behind a panel is complete stupidity.
Other cars do have electric door latches. Later model Corvettes do. The manual release is a pull-up lever between the seat and door, one on each side. Easy to reach and pull as long as you were shown it's there.
The building I'm sitting in has a 44kV to 600V transformer sitting beside it. The common way to step down voltage is using what's necessary for the application.
If you feed from each end of a physically long bus and the rectifiers are tapped/adjusted to have similar output voltages then they might not share per say, but the rectifier at each end could supply the loads at that end of the bus by virtue of the bus resistance forcing that rectifier to take...
Don't be ridiculous. If every single unit of an engine type can't make it 300k miles without an issues then it deserves to be ranted about. Same with any engine that uses a component or design that is personally deemed as being "stupid".
With that plane, roll could be a passenger issue. More distance from the center line means passengers are moved up and down more when the plane rolls. I thought there was something about that being more likely to cause motion sickness.
No, your proposed tests are useless.
Apply compressed air and listen for a leak at each port.
Or, if it's on a stand then you could rotate it until the intake or exhaust ports are up and then put some mineral spirits into each port and see if any leaks into the combustion chamber. Rotate the...
The star-delta starter only makes sense if it is the only starting method.
A VFD will draw even less line current than a star connected motor directly connected to line power. The VFD will even draw less line current than the motor draws connected on the VFD output while the motor is...
Hold for the "wrong" plane vs pass behind the "wrong" plane makes no difference in the outcome because the helicopter would have still proceeded forward enough to be in the path of the plane that hit it.
Good job though continuing your role of being the proper word use police, and also posting...