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When entering the cockpit, the first

item to be checked is the battery
voltages.

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 To do this, you look at the battery voltage
displays on the ELEC panel.
As you can see, both are below the
minimum required 25 volts. So, you will have
to recharge the batteries from external power.

Switch BAT 1 on.

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Note the OFF light has illuminated on

BAT 2 pb switch because now the aircraft
has electrical power to provide that
indication.
Switch BAT 2 on.

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 The ground cart is now connected.
The green AVAIL light has appeared
which means:
• external power is plugged in,
• its voltage and frequency are normal,
• it is ready for use.

Switch the EXT PWR ON.

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When the blue ON light is

illuminated, the ground cart is
supplying the aircraft.

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 The ECAM ELECTRIC page has been
called for you.

Note that voltage and frequency are

within normal parameters since they are
shown in green on the ECAM page.

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By following the green lines on the

ECAM page, you can see that the external
power is supplying all the electrical
system.

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 Because the engines are not running,
the indications of the associated
generators are in amber, and FAULT is
illuminated in amber on the GEN pb sw.

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On the ECAM page,

the battery voltage and
current are shown.

Because the voltage

is not yet normal, the
value stays in amber.

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 You can also see
the green arrow
which indicates that
the DC BAT bus is
charging battery 1.

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Both batteries are now charging from the DC

BAT bus.

During this time, you can continue with your

cockpit preparation.

The average charging cycle is approximately

20 minutes.

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 The battery charging cycle is now
complete. The green lines connecting the
batteries to the DC BAT bus have
disappeared, indicating the batteries have
disconnected.

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The APU has been started, and

it is time to disconnect external
power.

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 You can see on the ECAM page
that the APU GEN parameters are
now displayed.

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Notice that the APU

generator has not
automatically taken over
supplying the electrical
system from the external
power.
This is because
external power has
priority over the APU
unless external power is
deselected.

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 To select the APU generator, deselect
EXT PWR.

Switch the EXT PWR off.

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A green line has

appeared connecting the
APU box to the system.

This means that the APU

generator is now supplying
the aircraft. You can see
that the load is 36%.

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 The external power is still
available; however, we no longer
need it so it can be unplugged by the
ground personnel.

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The AVAIL light is extinguished and

the external power indications on the
ECAM have disappeared.

The external power source is

disconnected.

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 The electrical system is designed so that
each engine generator will automatically
come on line and power its respective bus.

We will start engine 2 first.

NOTE: It is UAL policy to start #1 engine

first. In this sequence, #2 is started first
simply as a matter of convenience.

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The engine is running. Notice the

generator automatically supplies the right
side of the electrical system, leaving the
APU to power the left side.

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 Notice also that the FAULT light on the
GEN 2 switch has disappeared.

Once engine 1 has started ...

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Engine 1 generator takes over from

the APU to supply the left hand side of
the system.
The FAULT light on the GEN 1 switch
has also disappeared.

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 The APU is no longer connected to the
system and the APU generator is now
showing 0 percent load.

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Once both engines are running

the APU can be switched off.

Switch off the APU.

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 The electrical system is now in the
normal configuration for taxi, takeoff, and
landing.

In a normal flight no further change

occurs to the electrical configuration until
the APU start on taxiing in.

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Now that the aircraft has landed, we will

start the APU for you.

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 The APU is now available and is
standing by to take over from the
engine driven generators when the
engines are shut down.

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Both engines are stopped.

The APU generator is back on line and

has automatically taken over supplying the
entire electrical system.

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 For training purposes, we will assume
that the aircraft is to be completely
shutdown.

So you have to request an external

power source.

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The AVAIL light on the panel and the

external power indications on the ECAM
have appeared indicating that the
external power source is plugged in and
available.

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 The ON light is illuminated in the
EXT PWR switch and the green lines
to AC bus 1 and 2 indicate that
external power has taken over from
the APU.

We can now shut down the APU.

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The external power can now be

switched off.

Switch the EXT PWR off.

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 When all the main power sources are
disconnected, the CRT screens become
blank.

To shut down the entire electrical

system we must switch off the batteries.

Switch BAT 1 off.

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Now switch off BAT 2

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 All lights on the overhead panel have
disappeared except the AVAIL light which is
receiving power from the external cart. The
battery voltage indications are LCDs and are
wired directly to the batteries so that they are
always displayed.

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