Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
Code for letting you choose to run electric engines on the surface has been added to SHSim  |
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
The electric engine's ratios will be that for the electric engines. You are running electric engines if you ask for them. I don't see how the electric engines ratios should be the diesels when surfaced.
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You misunderstood my previous post. Engine ratios for electric propulsion shouldn't change from underwater to surface, indeed. What should change on surface is the gradient of the rpm/speed graph. Look at the below graph, which was drawn using real data:
Both the blue lines refer to diesel propulsion, under various conditions. As you can see there is a little difference among them. Not so for the red lines:
Electric max (light red line) refers to electric propulsion
on surface and it is considerably steeper than
Electric max (dark red line, i.e. electric propulsion
submerged), having a gradient practically identical to the one of the diesel propulsion. This was probably due to the extra attrition caused by superstructure and guns during submerged navigation, absent on surface.
In game, if possible, you should replace electric propulsion's max speed set in U-boat's sim file with the following calculation (only for
surfaced electric propulsion):
Er * Ds / Dr
where:
Er = Electric Engine_rpm
Ds = Diesel Max_speed
Dr = Diesel Engine_rpm