[Mesa-users] stopping at the helium flash

[Jeremy Sakstein]

Silly question,

Did you mean power_he_burn_upper_limit = 1.0d6 or 1d-6?

I set it 1.0d6 and it's taking over 5000 steps. Someone suggested 3000 is
more typical.

I'm using 1d-4 for the varcontrol, which I think is the default.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:05 AM Aaron Dotter <aaron.dotter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You could, for example, set this value to a large number:
>
>       power_he_burn_upper_limit = 1.0d6
>
> It is set to 1d99 by default and so would never be triggered.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:03 AM Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Quick question: is there a control to stop at the tip of the red giant
>> branch i.e. the helium flash?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeremy
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