batteries

[bolero3232]

Can't charge batteries unless moving????

[BatWingSix]

it will charge when (correction) at speed 1 but very very slowly, speed 2 will charge fast. The engines arent considered on when set to stop

[bolero3232]

Well that's retarded.
Thank you Bat.

[Pyrrhus]

Running on diesel recharge batteries, even underwater with snorkel raised. Running on electricity engine drains batteries. Staying still doesn't recharge batteries cuz they need source of electricity. How else could skippers recharge batteries in middle of ocean? Solar panels? Windmill? Hamster wheel? Stationary bicycle? While staying still if you want to camp for next freighters, turn off gyro cuz it drains batteries.

[CrazyEight]

Originally posted by bolero3232:

Well that's retarded.
Thank you Bat.

You aren't very familiar with WW2 tech I assume.
Many systems inside engines in this time period are mechanical rather than electronically controlled. Electronic components are still very new and difficult to produce. The simplest way to recharge the ships battery is also the most direct. When the diesel engines apply power to propeller shaft, the electric motors uses that energy to recharge. Normally this isn't an issue because you are heading somewhere anyways.

Keep in mind, this is the era where seat belts in cars didn't exist. You are playing with some pretty experimental and poorly understood technology. Electric motors are complicated and expensive in 1941.

[urseus]

Get the nuclear update. You have to go to London Port to collect it.

[captainpanda34]

i think there's a way to charge batteries with diesels engines while stopped in the order transmitter, but it's not implemented (yet?) in the game.

[Dewgle]

Originally posted by captainpanda34:

i think there's a way to charge batteries with diesels engines while stopped in the order transmitter, but it's not implemented (yet?) in the game.

They could yeah, and I invoke the power of Wolf310ii to explain it

[bolero3232]

I understand the principles of charging systems and gearboxes and other mechanical devices. If you guys are telling me that WWII technology couldn't figure out how to run a generator with an engine idling in neutral I guess I'll just have to take your word for it, although it would boggle my mind.

Well, that's the way the game plays, so I'll just have to accept it.

[urseus]

There's a mod that adds auxiliary generator for stationary and for extra charging.

[bolero3232]

don't want mods, but thanks

[urseus]

Litterally 1 click to add them, and it's like going shopping for toys at Christmas.

The wondrous things they add oh my.

[awindsor89]

You know they stopped to recharge battery's right......i mean people do not know this you could set the engines to a neutral and still recharge by engaging the drives that recharge battery uboats most of the time did this on the surface until later in the war

[Dewgle]

Originally posted by awindsor1552:

You know they stopped to recharge battery's right......i mean people do not know this you could set the engines to a neutral and still recharge by engaging the drives that recharge battery uboats most of the time did this on the surface until later in the war

Standard procedure was to disconnect the propeller from one shaft and use that engine to charge the battery unencumbered while the opposite engine was used for propulsion. That way they could move while charging.

Yes, u-boats could disengage the propeller shafts from both engines and charge without moving but this wasn't done as often as the previously mentioned method.

[wolf310ii]

Originally posted by Excellent Life Choices:

You are playing with some pretty experimental and poorly understood technology. Electric motors are complicated and expensive in 1941.

What? Electric motors are pretty simple and already over 100 years old technology in 1941.
The CSS Hunley was pretty experimental and poorly understood technology, in WW2 u-boats are a well known and understood technology.
Liquid rockets where experimental and poorly understood.

Originally posted by McDewgle:

They could yeah, and I invoke the power of Wolf310ii to explain it :FH5Crown:

Oh, again? But it becomes boring.

The Typ VII didnt had gearboxes (for reverse, the diesel could run backwards)
Diesel - Clutch - E-motor/Generator - Clutch - Propeller.
They could run in every possible configuration.
Diesel-E-motor-propeller
Diesel-generator-propeller
Diesel-generator
E-motor-propeller
One side diesel-generator-propeller and the other side e-motor-propeller.
ect.

In heavy sea the e-motors could even be used to keep the RPM of the diesel steady, if the propellers came out of the water the e-motors switched automaticlly to charging and back to propulsion when the propellers are in the water again.