Display Circuit Breaker
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During climbout I heard a circuit breaker pop on the right side. Turned out to be a 10 amp breaker for a flight display but as far as I could tell everything was working fine. Tried a reset and it popped again. So I said neat my first failure. I checked the MFD avionics status display, it reported no faults. I again went over every instrument and display in the cockpit trying to track the culprit down but had no luck. Finally I decided to check the failure tab on the tablet and sure enough it said the EICAS DISPLAY FLIGHT failure was triggered, but the EICAS was still working fine.
Also my sim just crashed to desktop as I was typing this out so not sure if it's related to this fault not triggering properly after about 15 minutes of the breaker tripping.
Also on the topic of circruit breaker, i noticed i can pull breakers even with the cover closed. Is there anything that can be done about that?
Ive attached a picture with the area circled. its the flat side of the cover, if you hover the mouse along that the curser changed and you can click a breaker with the cover closed.
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I actually asked the owner most knowledgeable of Starship systems about this exact pair of circuit breakers (EICAS ground and flight). From our brief look at some schematics, we believed that the EICAS Flight breaker connects the main EICAS screen to the left gen EICAS bus feeder, while the EICAS Ground breaker connects the same screen to the center EICAS bus feeder. This allows the EICAS to be used on the ground with only the battery master and the EICAS switch on. In flight, you would see no issue with that breaker pulled, unless you somehow isolated the center bus from both battery and generator power with a combination of failures and the generator ties switch in the manually opened position.
Also, yes, I will tweak the clickspot for the breaker panel covers.
