What engine upgrades are you both useing?

Range readout your navigator gives you will vary on weather. Rough weather on the surface will slow you down, and give you a lower total range number. Clear weather will inflate the number he gives you.

Im running the first engine upgrade, and thus far have only gone across in summer, which has helped. I've tended to head down to the equator and then go straight across, and have had literally weeks at a time of sunshine and next to no wind. ahh the doldrums:rock:

I agree with Ducimus... the way the battery reload works, it basically takes one engine off from propulsion of the sub to action the alternator reloading (you can see the right shaft is not turning). I don't see why this engine would use more fuel running the recharge compared to actioning the screw shaft.
Of course if you want to maintain the same speed with one engine instead of two, then you have to have them run faster and use more fuel. But there is nothing that says that you have to. I just run slower on one engine while recharging for a few hours, nothing to hurry about.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=19

Either you didn't read this or you didn't understand it. Unless SH3s maths is wrong there is no way I can be incorrect.
I don't mean to sound arrogant, but its just fact!

I spent quite some time on boats and a diesel running at a set rpm will use the same fuel quantity, whatever you use the output power for... (what you do with the power it generates is not the problem of the engine, it just generates power)

Gonna keep this in the other post
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...483#post369483

:lol: :up:
:damn: :rotfl:

Touche? ;)

Wow this thread went OT.

Aye, it did. :D

batteries
 

The only way one can get more distance out of battery propulsion than out of diesel propulsion is if the recharging of the batteries is a more efficient use of the diesel engine than using it for propulsion; and/or the propulsion of the boat by battery is more efficient than that of desiel. Is it?
When running on deisel only the speed is faster so the boat is using more energy per unit of distance to push the boat than the lower speed of the battery propulsion uses to push the boat.
You can test this: drive your car at 40 mph and check your fuel usage; now drive at 80 mph and recheck it.

OMG :o Have you seen the price of Turkeys in the shops now that xmas is nearly upon us!! :rotfl: :arrgh!:

Not true. All motors, be they in cars or u-boats, have a optimum running speed. most cars run most efficiently at ~55mph.
A VIIC runs most efficiently at ~7knts on the surface.
It runs most efficiently below the surface at ~3.5knts, however this is less efficient than the surface speed of 3.5knts.

You only get out of the batterys as much as you put in the (minus the efficancy loss of the alternator and batterys)

It is impossible for the e-motors to improve efficancy

40 bucks for a spiral ham too... :down:

Oh and you can defnately get to the Carribean and back with a IXC, you just have to baby it some. :arrgh!:

Sail into St. John's harbour and I'll buy you a drink!!

HB

Sorry i coudlnt resist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkXV5O5GfJ8



Seriously, this has to be my favorite SH3 video in the carribean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgUIRL_18U

Wait for 1942 to go to Carnabbin ... America is still neutral be kind to them

You may go to Western Approaches/West of Gibraltar(don't go in)/Freetown

Also make sure you set "Days in Port" in SHIII commander to 1. You can spend more time with the Resupply Uboats. I've done it for 2 days while at sea. The men needed the rest and wanted some fresh fish. ;) Anything over 2 days could be a bit too much. Your choice tho.