REF.ISI21.43.00007 DESCRIPTION During engine shutdown, spurious indications at FWS and CMS were reported as follows:
These spurious indications only occur for FWD and AFT installation of the Cargo Heat Controller (optional):
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND/ANALYSIS The CHC performs a post-flight check of the trim air valve (TAV) at engine shutdown. Two TAV tests are performed:
If during the TAV test one the power supply to the CHC is interrupted once or several times for 5ms - 25ms, the microprocessor of the CHC is still supplied by power (transparency time requirement) but the output to the TAV is disconnected from power. The force of the spring causes a movement of several degrees to the close position before the power to the valve returns. This partially spring force closing causes a mismatch in step counting for opening or closing and leads to the cargo heat fault because of the TAV movement discrepancy. SOLUTION / RECOMMENDATION There is no operational consequence in case of such spurious fault triggering. The fault can be cleared via a reset of CHC by push/pull of the C/B for about 2 seconds if such an event occurs at engine shutdown. The CHC will perform the same test after this power-up and if the root cause of the indication was the power interrupt at engine shutdown, the test after power-up will result in no fault. If a real fault is active, it will also be indicated by this test. |
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