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Originally Posted by SteminDemon13
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
How? A generator is a fuel-powered engine.
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Sure but what drove the generator ?
The batteries in these subs are indeed massive. Just one battery was in the order of 4 to 8 times the size of the one in your car and there were 'banks' of these batteries. I dont know the exact number but probably in the order of 12 to 20 batteries in each of two banks (fore and aft). Depending on how they were wired (series or parallel) established the voltage available. The quantity and size of the batteries determined there capacity (ampere hours).
The amount of potential energy in the bank of batteries is really quite amazing. If it could all be released in an instant the explosion would be astonishing most likely destroying the submarine. Fortunatly its pretty hard to accomplish that and a slow release of this energy is what is desired. Once that energy is depleted there is no way to get it back without a rather substantial generator.
A little put put generator would not be able to produce the voltage/current required to charge the batterys in any sort of reasonable time. At the very least the generator has to be able to provide the voltage (actually a few volts above the batteires voltage) which I believe to be 300V DC. At least that voltage is common amongst diesel/electric systems of that era. Not a common output of your typical utility generator.
The 'return to base' button was removed by the developers as a nod towards realisim. Unfortunatly it often leads to a carrier in limbo.
I too have been crying for independant motor control since SH2 also the ability to choose which energy source to drive the sub from on the surface should be available as well. After all they did this in real life. How about nodding towards that realisim ?