Uboat Exhaust Smoke

[Cheapskate]

Originally Posted by grimes

i finally got the exhaust/water combimod to work. i had a question though, did uboats really create exhaust smoke such as that. i imagine they would at full ahead.

The exhaust smoke mod works on a speed related basis i.e. more speed = more smoke.

From what I've read (and remember from RB's original thread), it isn't quite as simple as that.

A properly maintained diesel engine will emit some black smoke on startup and whilst accelerating. It is caused by the engine not burning all the diesel fuel being injected until it reached the desired operating rpm.

So in going from ahead slow to ahead one third say, the exhaust should show some smoke gradually reducing to nothing. This would happen each time the engine telegraph settings were increased. So even at flank, the engine would not always be smoking.

Racerboy's implementation was therefore rather unrealistic ..unless there was some malfunction, but it is nice eye-candy and many Kaleuns wouldn't be without it!