80. Using the battery breakers (trips) as a variable for reversible depth-charge damage.
The breakers on our boat are for protecting the e-motor from too much current . In reality (I just learned) they were also, or entirely, breakers to protect the battery. It occurs to me this latter feature could be used with light DC damage, to plunge half the boat, or all of the boat, into darkness from a relatively close DC hit. This would rob the boat of propulsion partially or completely, and into darkness until the e-motor rheostat is wound back, the breakers reset. Moreover, it would conceal the amount of damage done until lighting is restored. If crush-depth were semi-random, but also decreased with DC attacks, perhaps with damage-control via isolation valves to stop leaks, then a deal of problems and required tasks to complicate the aftermath of a DC attack......
Having the breakers, one, or both, operate as a temporary loss of function under DC attack, and all that implies for changing the e-motor settings to resume propulsion without the breaker going off again, might be a good start to a more finessed "damage control"....?
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