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Updated note about specifying the initial state of a connector's switch.

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@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ An connector entry could look like the following:
<input>Alternator 1</input>
<output>Virtual Bus 1</output>
<switch>/controls/switches/master-alt</switch>
<initial-state>off</initial-state> <!-- optional tag -->
</connector>
A connector specifies and input, and output, and any number of
@ -138,6 +139,18 @@ You can have an arbitrary number of <switch> entries. The switches
are wired in series so all of them need to be on (i.e. true) in order
for current to pass to the output.
Note: by default the system forces any listed switches to be true.
The assumption is that not every aircraft or cockpit may impliment
every available switch, so rather than having systems be switched off,
with no way to turn them on, we default to switched on.
This is a problem however with the starter switch which we want to be
initialized to "off". To solve this problem you can specify
<initial-state>off</initial-state> or
<initial-state>on</initial-state> Switches default to on, so you
really only need to specify this tag if you want the connector's
switch to default to off.
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