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Power bus for ECS radiator heaters

Open mmontour opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

I noticed in SaturnSystems.cfg that the radiator heaters are connected to the AC_2 bus:

	# ECS heaters	
	<BOILER> PRIMECSRADIATORSHEATER	0 AC_2   8000.0  7.2 TEMP 247.0 250.0	HYDRAULIC:PRIMRADIATOROUTLET	
	<BOILER> SECECSRADIATORSHEATER	0 AC_2   8000.0  7.2 TEMP 280.0 282.0	HYDRAULIC:SECRADIATOROUTLET	

In the actual spacecraft the PRIM 1, PRIM 2, and SEC heaters are fed from service-module DC buses through over-current protection circuitry, although I have conflicting documents as to which heaters were on SM_MNA vs SM_MNB.

The heaters are a nominal 450W each, which is about 16A at 28VDC. This should be modeled so that the fuel-cell current will increase when a heater turns on. I'm not sure if these SM loads would show up on the "MN A"/"MN B" current readout or if that's for CM buses only.

p.s. the heaters are also associated with "...RADIATOROUTLET" here, although the real ones were on the inlet side of the radiators.

mmontour avatar Jul 27 '19 21:07 mmontour