Endurance voyages - Battery vs Diesel

Letum · 12-23-06, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Corsair

Quote:

Originally Posted by Letum

Yes, you went wrong.

You are assumeing that you are useing the same ammount of fuel in 3 hours. Just because you have the same speed setting does not mean you are useing the same ammount of fuel with chargeing on/off.

Why would not you be using the same amount of fuel ? Both engines work the same way when reloading, only difference is the right one is coupled to the alternator instead of being coupled to the driving shaft...
And definitely yes if you submerge during the day and run surfaced at night you will go further than driving surfaced all the time (except of course if you want to have the same speed on surface with one engine instead of two) and you probably will live longer...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=19

Read and understand that. I can not make it any more simple.
There is a simple efficancy loss in chargeing the battrys. No system can run above 100% efficancy!