Managing propulsion, Diesel-electric from another thread

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by rentacow

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Does anyone know how the circuit from a motor acting as a generator was wired to the battery and then to the other motor? did they bridge the port and starboard batteries in parallel? Possibly you could arrange the switched in such a way to run the motors at double their working voltage for more power in an emergency for a short time or on accident and burn out the motors.

Only thing i saw in the U 995 recently was there were switches for a parallel circuit ('Parallelschaltung') and connection in series ('Hintereinanderschaltung'), but i do not know what this referred to..
Max speed at 7/8 knots could not be further improved as far as i know, and it would only be possible to maintain this speed for roughly an hour.

Batteries were not divided laterally in left and right ones, though you could of course bridge cells and remove damaged ones from the circuit if need be.